A step-by-step walkthrough for the compliance officer or IT lead running their first AI-generated IR tabletop. Covers picking a category, scoping the bundle, running the live drill, locking the session as auditor evidence, and using the artifact under HIPAA §164.308(a)(8), SOC 2 CC7.4, ISO 27001 A.5.24, and the equivalent sections of NIST CSF v2.0.
The full cycle, end-to-end, takes about two hours of clock time — most of which is the drill itself. Bundle generation runs in the background while you brief the team.
The four categories cover the NIST CSF response surface end-to-end: identity attack, device compromise, HIPAA breach notification, and DR / restore. Each pulls findings from a different scan path, and each generates a category-specific scenario, facilitator guide, injects, and rubric.
Run when your last identity scan surfaced legacy-auth gaps, OAuth grant exposure, MFA bypass risk, or BEC-shaped findings. The drill exercises whether your team can detect, contain, and eradicate a credential-based attack against your Microsoft 365 tenant.
A recent Veri-Guard tenant assessment with at least one failed identity control.
Run when your last Intune scan surfaced gaps in App Protection Policy posture, device compliance state, or BYOD coverage. The drill exercises whether your team can revoke access on a lost or stolen endpoint before the data on it is exposed.
A recent Veri-Tune Intune-baseline assessment with at least one failed device control.
Run when your HIPAA scan surfaced gaps in the §164.308 administrative safeguards or §164.402 breach-determination process. The drill exercises whether your team can correctly walk the four-factor analysis under the 60-day notification clock.
A recent HIPAA Pack assessment with at least one failed safeguard.
Run quarterly regardless of recent scan posture. The drill exercises the pay-vs-restore decision under simulated ransomware pressure, including a Vault delete-attack survivability check and a per-application RTO validation pass.
Aggregate Veri-Vault posture (no source scan needed). Backup count, age, immutability window, and last successful restore-test date drive the scenario.
Each step lists what you actually do in the portal, plus the operational nuance that makes the difference between a drill that passes audit and one that gets flagged for being too generic.
By default, AI-generated drills assume an enterprise IR structure: dedicated CISO, Privacy Officer, 24/7 SOC analyst. Most teams don’t look like that. Tell the AI what your team actually looks like once, and every drill generated afterward maps the IR functional roles onto the labels you use (“IT Director” instead of “CISO”, “M365 Admin” instead of “SOC analyst”).
Open the scan results page for the category you chose, click Generate IR Tabletop on the hero card, and optionally pick up to three failed controls to anchor the scenario. The AI composes a scenario tailored to your actual findings, plus a facilitator guide, timed injects, and a scoring rubric.
Block 60 to 90 minutes on the calendar with five to eight named participants. The facilitator (typically the CISO or designate) reads the bundle first; participants do not see it pre-drill so the scenario lands authentically.
Click Run drill on the bundle viewer. The facilitator reads the opening script, clicks Start to begin the drill clock, then drops injects at the scheduled times (or earlier or later as the simulation pace dictates). Capture each team response in the inline textarea and score each rubric criterion at the close.
Once every rubric criterion is scored, click Lock session. The system writes the session.json blob to Veri-Vault with a SHA-256 checksum, fires a ComplianceArtifactGenerated audit event, and the record becomes immutable. The locked view is what an auditor opens.
The locked session record is what proves the drill happened. Cite it in your next periodic-evaluation evidence package, compare scores quarter-over-quarter as your team matures, and feed any gaps surfaced during the drill into the remediation backlog.
Annual is the regulatory floor; quarterly is the practical recommendation. Generate a fresh bundle each time so the scenario reflects current scan posture, then watch the rubric scores improve as your team internalizes the tradecraft.
When an auditor asks for evidence of periodic evaluation under HIPAA §164.308(a)(8), or response activities under SOC 2 CC7.4, or IR planning under ISO 27001 A.5.24, the locked session URL is what you hand over. They open it and see the scenario your team actually drilled, the timed injects with scheduled vs actual delivery times, every team response captured during the live drill, the rubric scores, and the SHA-256 chain back to the source scan.
The pacing-audit table is the artifact most experienced auditors zero in on. It is unambiguous evidence the drill was run in real time under simulated decision pressure, rather than walked through as a policy review. Drift values cluster around plus or minus two minutes for a healthy live drill; all-zero drifts (every inject delivered exactly on schedule) read as suspicious.
Six-year retention is enforced at the storage layer with WORM-immutable policy, not application logic. An admin credential compromise would not enable the locked record to be deleted or altered.
This guide describes the operational workflow for running an AI-generated IR tabletop using Veri-Tech’s drill engine. It does not replace the formal incident response plan your organization should have on file, nor the risk analysis your covered entity counsel signed off on, nor the Business Associate Agreement that scopes Veri-Tech’s role as a service provider to your covered-entity work.
The locked drill artifact is one of several pieces of evidence that together demonstrate IR readiness. The others include the IR plan itself, the post-incident reports for real incidents, the workforce training records under §164.530(b), and the documented sanction policy. The drill proves the plan can be executed; the plan still has to exist and be current.
For organizations on the HIPAA Pack tier, the IR Tabletop Generator is included in the existing tier scope. For organizations on Veri-Guard or Veri-Tune Enterprise, the identity, device, and DR drills are included; the breach category is HIPAA-Pack-only.
Walk through the live drill experience end-to-end without burning AI tokens or producing a real audit record.
Open the demo runnerThe Technical Safeguards from the HIPAA Security Rule mapped to Microsoft 365 tenant settings. Useful pre-reading before a breach-notification drill.
Open the checklistThirty minutes with William. Walk through the drill engine against your tenant’s actual scan posture and figure out which category to start with.
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