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6 Ways to Elevate Your Testing and Exercising Program

Fusion Risk Management

Functional Exercises : These involve the actual execution of certain tasks or processes, such as sending employees to work from an alternate site. Focus on Efficiency and Improvement : Make testing an efficient process that adds value and continuously improves strategies.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Test, Exercise and Continuously Improve Will the staff follow the planned response procedures precisely as they are outlined in the plans? They are never tested or exercised. Nobody knows where they are stored. The executives are too busy to even look at them. It is a recipe for disaster.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

alternate site and technology requirements (ability to work remotely). Test, Exercise and Continuously Improve. recovery priority of business functions, processes and IT applications. availability of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and manual workaround procedures for business processes. It is a recipe for disaster.