business continuity: TESTING AND EXERCISING, archive

A challenging exercise…
Why are people often reluctant to participate in business continuity exercises? Luke Bird gives his views.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Basic

A high return, low impact, exercise regimen
Conducting effective functional exercises in large organizations. By Renée Sherrill.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Butcher, baker, beer bottle maker: exercising with your supply chain
What are the advantages of running exercises with your critical suppliers? Harriet Wood provides a perspective from the brewing and pub industry.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Choosing an appropriate scenario for your business continuity plan exercises
The choice of business continuity exercise scenario is an important factor in its success, but how do you go about deciding what you should focus on? By Ray Abide.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

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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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Basic

Developing scenarios
Jim Preen provides some advice on how to set up convincing business continuity exercise scenarios.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/World •Level: Basic

Enough is enough...
Why is testing still a weak area in some business continuity management systems? David Honour comments.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

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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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Basic

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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•Type: Article •Region: US/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

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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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Basic

How to build the perfect business continuity management soufflé...
Chris Bakowski offers a recipe for business continuity success.
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•Type: Article • Region: Australia/World •Level: Basic

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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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

In-crisis decision making: practice makes perfect
Dennis C. Hamilton continues his series on crisis management, looking at how to conduct effective exercises.
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•Type: Article •Region: US/World •Level: Advanced

Incident response: digital fire drills are the road to faster recovery
Although many organizations may think that they have robust security policies in place, how well drilled are they at responding to security incidents when these occur?
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•Type: Article • Region: World •Level: Basic

Mastering exercise development
What are the keys to a successful business continuity exercise? Jim Burtles explains.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Basic

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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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

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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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Should business continuity managers commit to a new ‘Always Be Testing’ routine?
Larry Lang explains why new thinking is required when it comes to data system testing regimes.
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•Date: 7th August 2013 • World •Type: Article

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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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

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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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Ten steps to a great business continuity exercise
James Stevenson, a highly experienced business continuity manager, shares his thoughts on planning and running successful exercises.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

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 the disaster simulation
Mark Armour gives a comprehensive lesson in how to plan for, run and follow up a successful business continuity exercise.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

The art of effective exercising
What is required to ensure that an exercise is effective? By Chris Bakowski, MBCI.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

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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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

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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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Basic

Top tips for fantastic business continuity desktop exercises
Charley Newnham presents nineteen tips for running a successful business continuity exercise.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Top tips for improving your business continuity exercises
Could you get more out of your business continuity exercises? Do you have an inner concern that last year’s exercise programme didn’t demonstrate as much as you would have liked, or that there may be alternative ways of delivering the exercise that would be more cost effective and less effort?
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Trends in business continuity plan testing and exercising
Jim Preen takes a look at some emerging trends in this area.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Basic

Why testing and exercising are essential for an effective business continuity programme: BUT what exactly are you testing or exercising?
Lyndon Bird explains what the difference is between testing and exercising and offers some thoughts for improvements.
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•Type: Article •Region: UK/Worldwide •Level: Advanced

Words matter: why use ‘exercise’ instead of ‘test’?
The use of correct terminology is not just a matter of semantics: it can have a real impact on how participants view a business continuity exercise.
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•Type: Article •Region: Worldwide •Level: Advanced

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