During the course of the exercise, there will be times when an issue surfaces that cannot be resolved because of exercise time constraints. We define an “issue” as something whose resolution is important to the organization’s crisis or business continuity plan, but that cannot be resolved during the time available for the exercise. These issues…
The final exercise preparations are really about making sure your doing a rehearsal. It is your opportunity to do a dry run of your exercise to be sure everything is organized and in place. In this short video clip from the Crisis Coordinator Webinar Series, Rob Burton goes over the additional items on the final…
Guest Contributor: Heather Engel, Managing Director and Cyber Strategist, Strategic Cyber Partners If your company has any type of regulatory cybersecurity requirement, chances are those requirements include a Cyber Incident Response Plan. Whether DFARS 252.204-7012 to PCI to ISO 27001, incident response is a critical piece of your compliance and risk mitigation. But when is…
Why don’t we talk about those “Elephant in the Room” scenarios? Those situations that are obvious to everyone, yet leaders still leave to chance. What are Black Elephant scenarios and is your organization preparing for them? Lessons to be learned from the Covid-19 pandemic are still being formulated even as the Covid-19 vaccines are now…
Are you responsible for designing and delivering crisis management tabletop exercises for your organization? The Ultimate Guide to Crisis Management Tabletop Exercises is an eBook written by PreparedEx that explains in detail how your organization can develop and conduct tabletop exercises that will test and improve the efficacy of its crisis plans and the functioning of its crisis…
In episode 20 of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob chats again from home about the importance of building and maintaining your crisis management skills in between exercises.
In the 16th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses a few ideas to help generate your scenario.
We specialize in chaos. In fact, we create chaos by developing simulated crisis exercises that test and validate crisis teams at all levels of an organization. In this blog I’m going to discuss three crisis scenarios that we have found to be of serious concern to organizations in various sectors. There are three kinds…
For September’s Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob will be discussing all things crisis simulation exercises. In this 10th episode, Rob talks about why we exercise.
When is the last time your organization conducted a cyber security tabletop exercise? Cyber security teams are busy monitoring and responding to attacks against your organization’s information technology infrastructure. Should you still be conducting tabletop exercises? The answer is yes, of course you should. Although some teams seem to be in response mode on…