RTOs look clean on paper, not in practice
BIA documents say the right things, but teams rarely exercise whether alternate procedures actually kick in within the recovery window.
Business Continuity Tabletop Exercises
Pressure-test continuity plans for disruptive outages, alternate operations, and recovery prioritization.
The Problem
Common gaps in business continuity exercises
Dependency chains are invisible until tested
Critical processes usually depend on systems and vendors nobody mapped. Exercises surface those chains before they surface during the outage.
Ownership is ambiguous during disruption
Who decides to activate the alternate site? Who signs off on work-around procedures? Most plans leave ownership implicit.
Scenario Overview
What this exercise rehearses
Scenarios center on a disruption that affects critical operations — a facility outage, a regional utility failure, or a major workforce disruption — and walk the team through activating continuity plans and recovering services.
Default Roles
Default roles include business continuity coordinator, operations lead, facilities, IT/infrastructure, and an executive decision-maker.
What Gets Tested
Measure business impact assessment, alternate operations activation, stakeholder communication, and recovery prioritization.
Example Inject
A regional data center loses power during peak hours. Teams must activate continuity plans and reroute critical services within the defined RTO while communicating with impacted customers.
See what the report looks like
Every run produces a scored report mapped to recognized frameworks. Download the sample PDF to see the format teams get after a live Business Continuity exercise.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Reports map findings to ISO 22301 business continuity controls and NIST SP 800-34 where relevant.
Yes. Facilitators can branch the scenario mid-exercise so the team exercises more than one recovery path.
Injects include vendor and facility dependencies, and exercises can be tailored to specific sites or SaaS providers via the industry and scenario theme fields.
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