We publish weekly updates from the business continuity world, covering recent news items or reflecting on our travels and experiences with clients.
Charlie addresses topics from a Business Continuity perspective and you might be surprised how much of today’s news relates to BC! Providing valuable insight, Charlie raises critical questions which will surely encourage you to reconsider your Business Continuity plans.
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie gives us an exciting insight into his new published book, ‘Practical Business Continuity Exercises: How to Test Your Organization’s Resilience‘, and discusses the takeaways from the book. After a year of late nights, early mornings, and weekend work, at last I have a copy of my new book on exercises in my hand. The
In today’s bulletin, Charlie discusses how AI can be used to create a photo and gives an insight into how these photos can be used as part of an exercise. For the last month, I have been in Aruba, followed by a brief visit to Malaysia, so it is good to be back home and have my first
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie looks at the pros and cons of SIMEX (Simulation Exercise) and gives an insight into his experience running a live SIMEX. About three weeks ago, I planned, ran, and reported on the biggest SIMEX I have ever conducted in my whole career. It was a ‘no notice’ exercise, meaning the organisation was not
In today’s bulletin, Charlie follows up from last week’s bulletin on no-notice exercises and shares some of his experiences of his recent live exercise. On Wednesday, PlanB Consulting conducted the biggest exercise we have ever planned and delivered. It was a no-notice exercise involving five different teams responding to a cyber incident. As per last week’s bulletin, I
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses the importance of no-notice exercises and the importance of planning in an exercise. Shortly, I will conduct the largest exercise I have ever carried out. It is a live exercise involving five different teams responding to a cyber incident. The exercise will involve a full role-playing cell, with role players from both
This week, Charlie discusses the best way of utilising feedback forms after your exercises, and why they should be used in most exercises. This is rather an obscure subject to write about, but I was inspired by our ‘lunch and learn session’. We are going to be doing a session on feedback forms and we will be
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie talks about what may be useful to consider when developing objectives for your exercises, and discusses the importance of risk assessments and also teamwork. I have been doing lots of thinking about exercises and improving the skills and capabilities of those managing incident management teams. After carrying out a couple of exercises
In today’s bulletin, Charlie talks about the benefits of short exercises, particularly if you are a beginner at running exercises. Yesterday, our Prime Minister went from being the highest in office in the country, to being a pub quiz question. Being short doesn’t necessarily mean bad, well at least in business continuity exercises. If you are an