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Mastering Business Continuity Exercises: Best Practices, Scenarios, and Tools for 2025

BCP Builder

Here are six essential scenarios: Cybersecurity Breach Test your incident response plan by simulating a data breach or ransomware attack. Key Steps: Evacuation plans, backup site activation, and communication strategies. Health Crisis Test your readiness for a sudden health emergency, like a pandemic.

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4 Common Crisis Management Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Castellan

Toss in multiple simultaneous (and ongoing) disruptions, and teams find themselves bogged down with response plan focus, robbing them of time to build a holistic approach that spans from planning through response and into recovery. Here’s a closer look at some common crisis management pitfalls organizations grapple with.

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Testing your Response Plans: What Would Confucius Say?

On Solve

Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. An exercise of the elements of a Business Resiliency, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications or IT Disaster Recovery (BR/CM/CC/DR) plan is an important aspect of an organization’s emergency preparedness.

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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

I often lead crisis management drills for one of our customers in the hospitality industry. Develop a plan for data backup. And continue to test your emergency response plan. There is much to consider when creating a business continuity plan; these are just a few ideas. Prepare for your recovery.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

An integrated critical event management (CEM) platform can help crisis management teams successfully communicate with their people during a severe weather event. A unified critical event management platform can automate emergency notifications and communications, while centralizing all event activity.

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

Instructions about how to use the plan end-to-end, from activation to de-activation phases. References to Crisis Management and Emergency Response plans. A schedule defining reviews, tests of the plan. This makes RTO and RPO calculations a key part of the DR planning process.

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The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies

Erwood Group

Let’s explore the transformative role of innovations and emerging technologies in shaping the future of business continuity, along with crisis management and disaster recovery to enhance organizational resilience. Performing real-time diagnostics, automating backup and recovery procedures and more.