Many small businesses are able to continue to operate during a crisis, such as a weather-related emergency, because they have continuity plans. In addition to creating a continuity plan, your company ...

Business continuity plans are worthless unless they are periodically tested. The key to achieving resilience during a crisis is to incorporate testing as part of the overall business continuity ...

Discussion, creativity and validation make business continuity initiatives stronger. When IT teams run exercises to test a business continuity plan, they learn firsthand what works and what does not.

Butcher, baker, beer bottle maker: exercising with your supply chain What are the advantages of running exercises with your critical suppliers? Harriet Wood provides a perspective from the brewing and ...

In more than 20 years of designing backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity systems for clients, there is factor which I have continually stressed. Testing, testing, and more testing; test ...

Author’s note: This article introduces a longer working paper, The Governance Stress-Test Doctrine for Internet Institutions, Version 1.0 - Final Working Draft. The ...

New York, NY, October 27, 2025 – SIFMA today issued the following statement from Charles DeSimone, SIFMA managing director, technology and operations, on SIFMA’s October 25, 2025 industry-wide ...

SIFMA has issued the following statement from Charles DeSimone, SIFMA managing director, technology and operations, on SIFMA’s October 24, 2026 industry-wide business continuity test: “Operational ...

The business continuity plan may be backed by good technology and written documentation, but unless it’s brought out and tested every now and then, there is still a risk that everything may not work ...