Chapter 11
Validating Your Business Continuity Plan
In This Chapter
Introducing business continuity testing
Planning your exercise
Carrying out an exercise
Making your business more resilient as a result
Validation (introduced in Chapter 10) is the process of assuring your readiness for a disruptive event or crisis. In this chapter, we break this important task down a bit so you can be confident that the business continuity (BC) system you’re putting in place will work effectively when it matters.
Although people often use the terms ‘exercise’ and ‘test’ to mean the same thing, here’s how we use them in this chapter:
An exercise can be many different things (as we explain later), but all of them have the objective of exploring how your BC arrangements will stand up to the pressure of real events. An exercise needs to be a learning event that tells you about areas of strength and weakness, so make sure you listen and act on what you discover.
A test is a specific type of exercise ...
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