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

BCP Builder

The key to resilience lies in preparationand thats where business continuity exercises come in. These exercises help organisations test, refine, and strengthen their business continuity plans (BCPs) to ensure theyre ready for anything. What Is a Business Continuity Exercise?

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Integrating Risk Disciplines: Business Continuity and Cyber Response

Castellan

Both the definition of “business continuity” and the industry as a whole are evolving. As we reflect on lessons learned from our pandemic and multi-event response protocols, we can find many opportunities to improve business continuity practices to further solidify resilience. First, What is Cyber Resilience?

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How Business Continuity Leaders Can Shine a Light on a Dark Day

On Solve

That means business continuity leaders like you must be able to communicate and execute crisis response plans quickly and effectively. A thorough business continuity plan backed by the right supportive technology will address both the knowns and the unknowns, as well as the confluence of multiple threats.

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Emergency Response Planning Tasks

MHA Consulting

There are numerous risks a company can face that will require an Emergency Response Plan. Rather than creating a separate plan for every type of event that could occur, it is advisable to create a basic emergency response checklist that can be used regardless of the emergency.

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How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

MHA Consulting

Due to the rise in work-from-home, the last few years have seen a serious degradation in organizations’ emergency planning and response capability. In today’s post, we’ll look at why it’s important to have a solid emergency response plan and explain how to create one. Develop and write the emergency response plan.

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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

All this leads to the question: How do you continue to respond to crises with a skeleton staff? Here are a few tips to keep in mind when developing your own business continuity plan: Have training documents prepared. Develop a plan for data backup. And continue to test your emergency response plan.

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Business Continuity and ‘Emergency Response’

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at the relationship between business continuity and emergency response. I have noted within LinkedIn forums, on Pulse, Continuity magazine and on various blog sites and portals that there is a gathering debate on whether business continuity is fit for purpose.