DeepSec 2025 Talk: Lessons learned from preparedness exercises with 3500 companies – Erlend Andreas Gjære
Preparedness exercises, whether they are traditional tabletop discussions or more interactive gamified experiences, help us become more prepared – and to do this together, with engagement between individuals who need to perform optimally as a group, under pressure. Based on the speaker’s experiences from preparing and facilitating more than one hundred cyber exercises, including both individual companies and events with multiple companies participating together, this talk will illustrate both which risks and vulnerabilities happen to manifest themselves during incidents (and exercises), and how companies and stakeholders with various roles and levels of experience respond to these. We asked Erlend a few more questions about his talk. Please tell us the top 5 facts about your talk. 5000 companies participated across 85 free cyber preparedness exercise events in the Nordics since last year. 48% of