Leadership Tabletop Exercise for Institutions of Higher Education (LTTX) are half-day events hosted for campus leadership designed to highlight their role in managing institutional risk during emergency incidents. These executive events bring together campus leadership, local, state, and federal officials, and industry subject matter experts to simulate emergencies through tailored case studies on a range of threats.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in coordination with the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), conducted a Leadership Tabletop Exercise for Institutions of Higher Education (LTTX) on November 30, 2018, in Denver, Colorado.
The event brought together the presidents and senior level staff of 34 colleges and universities from across the state of Colorado. More than 100 individuals representing the emergency management, cybersecurity, and operational leadership of each institution attended. Participants also included representatives from federal, state, and local departments and agencies that support campus resilience. The event focused on cybersecurity threats to higher education.
This half-day event explored and tested campus resilience and emergency preparedness efforts on the topic of cybersecurity threats, including a data breach and cyber-caused infrastructure failure.
For more information, please visit the Campus Resilience Program main page or contact the Office of Academic Engagement at AcademicEngagement@hq.dhs.gov.
The half-day event explored and tested campus resilience and emergency preparedness efforts through an unclassified threat briefing, a series of case studies with immersive discussion questions on leadership’s role during an incident, and an in-depth discussion of options for leadership to consider in building campus resilience.