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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. Regularly update the plan to address new threats and evolving business needs.

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

This week I talk about writing incident scenarios and how different business continuity plans have come back in style. The use of risk scenarios is being pushed by the PRA and the FCA at present, as part of their operational resilience agenda. Nevertheless, these types of plans are becoming increasingly rare.

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

This week I talk about writing incident scenarios and how different business continuity plans have come back in style. The use of risk scenarios is being pushed by the PRA and the FCA at present, as part of their operational resilience agenda. How we wrote business continuity plans 20 years ago.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

It’s important to understand the distinctions between business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP) because they each entail a different set of problems, priorities, and solutions. What Is Business Continuity Planning? BCP and DR have slightly different objectives as well.

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Business Continuity vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

It’s important to understand the distinctions between business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP) because they each entail a different set of problems, priorities, and solutions. What Is Business Continuity Planning? BCP and DR have slightly different objectives as well.

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Double trouble: When climate change and cyber crime collide

everbridge

Employees across the enterprise must continuously be reminded that cyber threats are everywhere and are most likely when other potential incidents occur. Think beyond single scenario planning. During the most challenging times, they must be the most vigilant of phishing, malware, and scams. This is hazardous thinking.

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The New Normal

BCP Builder

All aspects of Business Continuity, including planning, training, stress testing and exercising of Business Continuity Plans will be seen as a priority. Many professionals in senior roles did not understand, nor even care to understand business continuity and organisational resilience strategies.

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