BUSINESS CONTINUITY TESTING AND EXERCISING

A high return, low impact, exercise regimen
Conducting effective functional exercises in large organizations. By Renée Sherrill.
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Creating effective business continuity plans
Barry Varley, CEO of independent testing consultancy Acutest, highlights the two main problems that lead to business continuity plans failing.
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Exercising: the secret to successful business continuity plans
Denis Goulet, MBCI & Paul Kirvan, FBCI provide some advice for those new to the subject.
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Five critical recovery flaws your last DR test might have missed
Doron Pinhas takes a look at the challenges of traditional IT disaster recovery testing.
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Help! I’m an observer at my first disaster recovery exercise...
Sean Doherty, BCM Adviser for RBC Royal Bank IT division, provides some advice.
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How to build the perfect business continuity management soufflé...
Chris Bakowski offers a recipe for business continuity success.
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Improving business continuity testing and exercising
Three surveys published recently seem to show that testing and exercising of business continuity and disaster recovery plans and strategies is generally a weak area. Continuity Central asked various business continuity experts why this should be the case and what organizations can do to improve in this area.
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Mastering exercise development
What are the keys to a successful business continuity exercise? Jim Burtles explains.
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Network emulation for business continuity testing
Sameer Gupta explains how to test network business continuity plans in the lab environment rather than on the live network.
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Practice makes almost perfect
The exercising of a business continuity plan is what separates successful recovery from disastrous failure. Dr. Jim Kennedy, MRP, MBCI explores the subject.
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Some thoughts on business continuity response exercises
The other day I was asked how I go about testing business continuity response plans. I mumbled a reply which was not satisfactory to either the person on the other end of the line or myself. Exercising such a plan is a bit more complicated than a simple sentence can convey.... By John Glenn MBCI, CBCP.
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Some thoughts on exercise scenarios and plot lines
Jim Burtles explains how to go about developing suitable exercise scenarios for your organisation.
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Testing your contingency plans, successfully
What are the ingredients of a successful test? Allen Johnson discusses the issues involved and begins with cases drawn from real life of how to get it wrong…
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The art of effective exercising
What is required to ensure that an exercise is effective? By Chris Bakowski, MBCI.
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The design, management and evaluation of exercises and tests
John Salter of Emergency Preparedness Capacity Builders has provided a PDF resource which addresses the above subject.
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The testing conundrum…
A consistent result of business continuity research is a general lack of commitment to testing and exercising plans. Why is this the case? David Honour explores.
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