Testing & Exercising Your Business Continuity Plan

This "BCM Planning" series of book aims to prepare your organization to survive any unexpected crisis with expected results in continuing business operations.  This "Testing and Exercising" book is the sixth of the seven book series.  It is written to explicitly discussed about the individual phases of the BCM Institute's BCM Planning methodology.

This book will help you to design and conduct basic tests such as Notification and Walk-through, and advanced level tests such as Integrations and Simulations, which are effective and proven testing methods.  For readers who may have the opportunity to view the ISO 22398:2013 Guidelines to Exercises," the content continue to be relevant.  It continue to serve as a detailed reference guide for the "operationalising" of the testing and exercising requirement for any organisations.

ISBN: 981-05-5848-1

Published Year: 2006 (2nd Edition)

Testing & Exercising Your Business Continuity Plan

This second edition includes advanced testing techniques and templates for the more matured business continuity management program. While retaining the sections on basic tests such as single component, notification and walk-through, greater breadth and depth have been added to chapters on conducting advanced tests such as integrated tests and simulations. A clear outline of the objectives of the various tests, and under what conditions these tests should be carried out, are depicted as well.

The second part of this book presents various templates, containing miscellaneous checklists, tables and forms, which serve as useful reference and resource materials for use in different phases of the testing process.

Lastly, sample templates can be access easily via Guidance Notes to Complete the Testing and Exercising Template.

The content of the book is to accomplish the following:

• Create a multi-year test program with specific objectives
• Design, develop, and conduct effective test activities, focusing on Notification Tests, Walk-through Tests, Integrated Tests and Simulation
• Enhance skills in conducting tests, namely control and evaluation skills
• Be conversant with test methodologies, tools, and techniques
• Document test results to facilitate ease of review, audit and quality assurance
• Track test results and sustain improvements

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