How do you know if your cyber-breach response plan will work? Have you ever tested your plan to uncover any gaps, before a crisis hits?

In celebration of our 10^th anniversary, Firestorm is hosting two, no-fee, cyber-crisis response virtual simulation exercises—the first of their kind in the crisis management industry—on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2 p.m. EST, or Monday, Dec. 14, 2 p.m. EST.

These groundbreaking, 90-minute interactive exercises, designed for organizations of all types, will stress-test senior leadership team response in a simulated cyber-crisis. The panel of experts will guide participants through a series of escalation events, with participants applying their own crisis management and cyber-breach response plans to each stage.

Each session will include a discussion of how their insurance responds to the cyber-crisis and will conclude with a “hot wash” and benchmark analysis of actions taken. The sessions are specifically designed to empower participants to improve their cyber-breach response plans.

What Participants Will Learn:

• Crisis/consequence management overview.
• Exercise structure, objectives and assumptions.
• Cyber-breach crisis scenario: series of escalations.
• Hot wash self-review and crisis management maturity model analysis.
• Warning signs and indicators.
• Next steps and resources.
• What do you know?
• What do you do?
• How do you monitor?
• What do you communicate and with whom?

Who Should Attend? Anyone who wants to ensure their organization is prepared for a cyber breach, such as:

• Senior crisis team members
• Organization continuity team members
• Crisis communication team members
• Senior leadership (including, but not limited to, IT senior leadership)
• Operations
• Internal audit team members
• Finance
• Human resources
• Security professionals

For each exercise, Firestorm is partnering with industry leaders in accounting, insurance and intelligence notification.

DHG

Thomas Tollerton (CISSP, CISA, QSA), a Manager and IT Advisor in cybersecurity, will represent Dixon Hughes Goodman in the Cyber Crisis Exercise. With more than 1,800 people in 12 states, Dixon Hughes Goodman ranks among the nation’s top 20 public accounting firms. Offering comprehensive assurance, tax and advisory services, DHG focuses on major industry lines and serves clients in all 50 states as well as internationally. Visit www.dhgllp.com for additional information.

JLT

JLT Specialty USA is the U.S. platform of the leading specialty business advisory firm Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group. JLT experts have deep industry and product experience serving leading U.S. and global firms.  JLT is one of the world’s leading providers of insurance, reinsurance and employee benefits-related advice, brokerage and associated services. For more information, visit http://www.jltus.com

Steve Bridges Esq. (Senior Vice President, Cyber and E&O Practice) and Shannon Grober (Senior Vice President, Cyber and E&O Practice) will both represent JLT during the Cyber Crisis Exercise.

MIR3

Stacey Giles (Director, Enterprise Solutions) will represent MIR3. MIR3 is the premier provider of Intelligent Notification and response software for business operations, including crisis management, IT service management, corporate communications, customer relations, supply chain management, event management, or any area that needs reliable two-way notification for groups from one to many thousands. Visit http://www.mir3.com/

Firestorm

Firestorm will be represented by Jim Satterfield (President, COO and Co-Founder) and Jack Healey, CPA/CFF, CFE (Managing Director of Business Crisis Practice, Firestorm).

Be a part of the conversation

Live tweet during the session using the #CrisisCoach hashtag to @Firestormsol. Send us your team pictures during our next exercise!

Register for either session:

Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015; 2:00 p.m. EST
    OR
Monday, Dec. 14, 2015; 2:00 p.m. EST

If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or at 770-643-1114.