Struggling to prepare your team for unexpected cybersecurity threats? Imagine having an AI partner that can help you build hyper-realistic tabletop scenarios, practice decision-making under pressure, and uncover blind spots—all while saving time and resources. This course will guide you on a journey to revolutionize your approach to cybersecurity training by integrating ChatGPT into your tabletop exercises, ensuring your organization is ready for the real game.
What You'll Learn:
Create Dynamic and Realistic Cybersecurity Scenarios: Use ChatGPT to design interactive scenarios with branching decision trees. Craft exercises that adapt to participants’ choices, pushing them to think critically about complex challenges while uncovering new angles of attack.
Perform Individualized, Targeted Practice with Micro-Tabletops: Learn how to use ChatGPT to create "micro-tabletops," small-scale exercises that allow individual team members or small groups to focus on their specific responsibilities and tools. These targeted simulations enable frequent practice, iterative hardening of specific domains (e.g., Active Directory or Okta), and integration with broader team exercises to ensure overall organizational preparedness.
Master the Flipped Interaction Pattern for Training: Discover how to let AI take the lead in tabletop facilitation. This unique approach allows ChatGPT to simulate evolving incidents, ask probing questions, and dynamically adapt based on your team’s responses—making every session a tailored learning experience.
Inject Real-World Pressure into Your Scenarios: Learn how to add authentic tension to decision-making exercises. With ChatGPT, you can create scenarios that mimic the real-world ripple effects of cybersecurity breaches, such as regulatory deadlines, stakeholder complaints, or operational disruptions.
Optimize Your Team’s Response Through Iterative Practice: Transform the way your organization practices cybersecurity. Generate instant feedback, identify critical gaps, and refine responses—all in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional tabletop methods.
Build Collaborative Decision-Making Skills Across Departments: Train technical, legal, and communications teams to coordinate effectively during crises. Use ChatGPT to highlight each group’s unique pressure points, ensuring all stakeholders are prepared for their roles in an incident response.
Who Is This Course For?
Cybersecurity Professionals: Overwhelmed by the time and cost of creating tabletops? Learn to streamline the process with AI.
IT and Security Teams: Want to simulate realistic, high-pressure incidents? Use ChatGPT to craft exercises that build confidence and capability.
Business Leaders and Decision Makers: Need to ensure your organization is ready for the unexpected? Gain insights into how AI can enhance readiness.
Educators and Facilitators: Interested in teaching cybersecurity skills interactively? Master tools and techniques to engage participants in novel and impactful ways.
Why Take This Course?
Cybersecurity breaches are inevitable, but unpreparedness doesn’t have to be. With ChatGPT, you can democratize access to high-quality training, creating customized, realistic exercises that challenge your team to respond effectively. Whether simulating a phishing attack, addressing regulatory fallout, or handling complex stakeholder dynamics, this course empowers you to enhance your incident response capabilities.
Imagine transforming your tabletops into immersive learning experiences—without the time, cost, and complexity of traditional methods. By the end of this course, you’ll have the skills to use generative AI for designing, facilitating, and iterating on exercises that keep your team sharp and ready for anything.
Join the growing number of professionals revolutionizing cybersecurity readiness with AI. Don’t get caught unprepared—enroll today and start building stronger defenses with ChatGPT!
ChatGPT + Cybersecurity: AI-Powered Tabletops & Training
Vanderbilt University via Coursera
Overview
Syllabus
- Why Use Generative AI to Help Facilitate Tabletops & Practice Handling Unforeseen Events?
- Introduction to Cybersecurity Tabletops & Generative AI Enhancements
- Practice More Often with Cybersecurity Micro-Tabletops & GPTs
Taught by
Dr. Jules White and Dr. Sam Hays