Re: Strategic TTX facilitator service suggestion request

["Milford, Kim" <kmilford () IU EDU>]

Hello Ben,

 

In 2018, REN-ISAC held a series of six workshops that included guidance, a blended-threat exercise, and discussion at 
different campuses across the US.  We partnered with a small private firm, Gate 15 [1] that has specialized experience 
and keen interest in incident exercises.  I’m happy to provide more details about the program.  And perhaps some of the 
hosts or participants might be willing to chime in here and provide more direct feedback on the sessions they attended.

 

REN-ISAC is slated to run a new series of six workshops in 2019, with new locations (although we may retain a few of 
our excellent host locations from 2018!) and a new exercise scenario.  We’ll be kicking off the planning soon.  If you 
would be interested in participating in the planning and hosting of one of the workshops, please let me know.

 

Or if you’d rather do your own thing, I can put you in touch with our colleagues at Gate 15 to provide a more tailored 
exercise for you.

 

[1] https://gate15.global/

 

Best regards,

 

Kim Milford

 

Executive Director

REN-ISAC

kmilford () ren-isac net <mailto:kmilford () ren-isac net> 

O:   317-278-4815

M:  317-625-7800

 

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> On Behalf Of Ben Marsden
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 4:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Strategic TTX facilitator service suggestion request

 

A quick thanks to both Rob and Celisa for your recommendations,  these are both quite helpful for me as I figure out 
how to move this forward here.

 

-- Ben

 

 

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 3:47 PM Ben Marsden <bmarsden () smith edu <mailto:bmarsden () smith edu> > wrote:

Greetings  (and my apologies to anyone also on the REN-ISAC discuss list for this cross posting...) 
 
  We would like to hold a strategic level IT table top exercise, and I would welcome suggestions on who we might ask to 
organize and facilitate this.   

   Target participants are institutional senior level leadership, and a scenario involving IT infrastructure and 
services, modeling something akin to (or directly mirroring) that presented by DHS for their NTTX workshop in Oct. 
2017, which a few of us attended and found eye-opening.

   This could be either a single institution engagement & exercise, or we could open up to our peer institutions (the 
"Five Colleges, Inc." community, and possibly others in this neck of the woods), located here in the Connecticut River 
region of central Massachusetts.

    I welcome any comments, suggestions and recommendations you might have.  Thank you!


-- Ben


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