Functional TTX - IR Day [Session 4 of 4]

Half-Day Interactive (Classroom) Training - OWASP New Zealand Day 2026

Course Details

Dates: Wednesday, 2 September 2026

Time: 1:45 to 5:30 p.m. (NZST)

Instructor: David Jennings, Fluid Security

Course Fee: NZ $225.00 (plus GST and ticketing fees)

Registration Site: https://events.humanitix.com/owaspnz2026-training

NOTE: This is Session 4 of a four-session, two-day training course. While the four modules are intended to be completed in sequence, more experienced practitioners may choose to enrol in one or more individual sessions.

Course Description

Tabletop exercises (TTXs) allow participants to test assumptions by communicating how they would react and rehearsing what actions they would take in an incident.

Like most things, conducting tabletop exercises allows your teams to practice and improve their abilities at responding over time. Although each scenario will be different, this allows other members within your teams to switch roles and perhaps take the lead in their area of responsibility, enabling your teams to build resilience and be prepared to mitigate the impact of a cybersecurity incident.

A low-stakes environment helps in training personnel without the pressure of real-world consequences
Allows participants to familiarise themselves with procedures and the roles they would have to undertake during a real crisis
Creates opportunities to uncover weaknesses that might not have been apparent otherwise
Participants learn how to eff ectively communicate, share information, and coordinate responses across teams, which is crucial during emergencies
Enables decision-makers to practice making critical decisions under pressure and gain agreement on those decisions that can be made ahead of time
Builds confidence in responding to incidents, reduces panic during a real incident and ensures a more coordinated response

This session is the fourth in our four-module course. To wrap things up, we bring together participant’s new skills of:

how to respond to an incident,
how to perform quick threat models to help with triage,
and how to leverage CTI,

participants then get tested in multiple functional tabletops to ensure their new knowledge sticks by actively using it under pressure.

Visit https://fluidsecurity.co.nz/training/irtraining/ for more details.

Your Instructor

David Jennings (DJ, a.k.a. Moss) remains optimistic that he can make organisations great again (read: more secure), even though he’s seen his fair share of horror stories over his career. With risks being blindly accepted and added to ever-expanding registers, it wasn’t long before he was in the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. Let his dulcet tones soothe you as you come for a ride and learn how to be useful instead of just making nee-naw sounds when the worst occurs.