Business Continuity Exercises
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Business Continuity Exercises

Quick Exercises to Validate Your Plan

  1. 363 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Business Continuity Exercises

Quick Exercises to Validate Your Plan

About this book

An Unexercised Continuity Plan Could Be More Dangerous Than No Plan At All!

Is exercising your continuity program too time-consuming, costly, or difficult to justify in the face of conflicting organizational priorities or senior management buy-in? What if you could use quick, cost-effective, easy exercises to get valuable results with only a relatively modest commitment?

Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or just getting started, Charlie Maclean-Bristol provides you with expert guidance, a practical framework, and lots of proven examples, tools, tips, techniques and scenarios to get your business continuity exercise program moving!

You can carry out any of the 18 simple yet effective exercises detailed in this book in less than an hour, regardless of your level of experience. Plus, you will find all the support you will need to produce successful exercises.

Build your teams' knowledge, experience, confidence and abilities while validating your business continuity program, plans and procedures with these proven resources!

Business Continuity Exercises: Quick Exercises to Validate Your Plan Will Help You To:

  • Understand the process of planning and conducting business exercises efficiently while achieving maximum results.
  • Develop the most appropriate strategy framework for conducting and assessing your exercise.
  • Overcome obstacles to your business continuity exercise program, whether due to budget restrictions, time constraints, or conflicting priorities.
  • Choose the most appropriate and effective exercise scenario, purpose and objectives.
  • Plan and conduct your exercise using a straightforward, proven methodology with extensive tools and resources.
  • Conduct exercises suitable for responding to all types of business interruptions and emergencies, including cyber incidents and civil disasters.
  • Conduct exercises for newcomers to business continuity as well as for experienced practitioners.
  • Create a comprehensive post-exercise report to achieve valuable insights, keep management and participants in the loop, and to further your objectives.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. COPYRIGHT
  4. WHAT YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE SAYING ABOUT BUSINESS CONTINUITY EXERCISES
  5. Dedication and Acknowledgements
  6. Preface
  7. Foreword by Dr. Claire MacRae
  8. Foreword by James McAlister
  9. Introduction
  10. How to Plan Your Exercise
  11. Types of Short Exercises
  12. 1. The Simplest of Exercises: The Plan Walkthrough
  13. 2. The Most Versatile of Exercises: Speed Exercising
  14. 3. Simple Tabletop Exercise
  15. 4. Fire Bell Has Gone Off – “Outside NOW”
  16. 5. A Team Agenda for Dynamic Incident Team Meetings
  17. 6. Concise Briefings With NoWaffle, Three-Minute Briefs
  18. 7. Identify Key Stakeholders by Using a Communications Matrix
  19. 8. Stakeholder Influence Matrix - Understanding Your Stakeholders’ Importance
  20. 9. Precise Incident Reporting Using the METHANE Mnemonic
  21. 10. Responding to an Incident by Conducting a Dynamic Risk Assessment
  22. 11. “What, So What, Now What” -Ensuring You Understand the Whole Picture
  23. 12. Horizon Scanning During Incidents, Anticipating Worst Case
  24. 13. War Gaming: Red Team Versus Blue Team
  25. 14. Randomize Your Exercise Scenarios With a Scenario Generator
  26. 15. Accessorize Your Response With Battleboxes and Grab Bags
  27. 16. Keep it Simple: the Hot Debrief
  28. 17. Debrief Military Style: With an “After Action Review”
  29. 18. Debrief Your Exercise, Incident or Event Using “Structured Debriefing”
  30. 19. Writing a Post-Exercise and Training Report
  31. 20. The Role of the Umpire in Exercises
  32. 21. A Framework for Assessing the Exercise
  33. 22. Choosing an Exercise Scenario
  34. 23. A Selection of Scenario Suggestions
  35. 24. A Syllabus for a Full Day’s Training
  36. 25. Summary and Next Steps
  37. Appendix A: Developing a SIMEX
  38. Appendix B: Exercising With Tribbles, by Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI
  39. Credits
  40. About the Author