Introduction
Exercises are often designed to demonstrate preparedness rather than test it. People read from scripts, the scenario stays polite, and nothing in production changes.
A useful tabletop pressures a real decision: who can isolate a system, who informs a regulator, who speaks to a partner. If those answers are unclear in the room, they will be unclear in an incident.
Capture the friction
PCS runs exercises so the output is a shorter path to action, not a longer report.
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Pressure a real decision
If nobody in the room can isolate a system, inform a regulator, or speak to a partner, that is the finding.
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Write down what broke
A step that depended on a missing person or a locked tool is worth more than a coloured heat map.
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Change the work
A tabletop that ends in a slide deck has already failed. The value is who can act afterwards.
