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Disaster Recovery Exercise Guide
Comprehensive guide to planning, executing, and evaluating disaster recovery exercises to validate your recovery capabilities.
Description
The Disaster Recovery Exercise Guide is a practical resource designed to help organizations plan, execute, and evaluate disaster recovery exercises. These exercises are essential for validating recovery capabilities, identifying gaps, and ensuring that teams are prepared to execute recovery procedures during actual disruptions.
This guide covers various types of exercises, from tabletop discussions and walkthrough drills to functional exercises and full-scale simulations. It provides step-by-step instructions for developing exercise scenarios, setting objectives, defining evaluation criteria, and facilitating effective exercises.
Based on industry best practices and lessons learned from real-world recovery situations, this guide helps organizations establish a progressive exercise program that builds and maintains recovery capabilities over time.
Objectifs
- ✓Guide the development of effective disaster recovery exercises
- ✓Help organizations validate their recovery capabilities and procedures
- ✓Provide frameworks for evaluating exercise results and identifying improvements
- ✓Support the establishment of a progressive exercise program
- ✓Prepare teams to execute recovery procedures during actual disruptions
Contenu
- •Introduction to disaster recovery testing and exercises
- •Exercise types and methodologies explained
- •Exercise planning and preparation guidelines
- •Scenario development templates and examples
- •Facilitator guides for different exercise types
- •Participant briefing and debriefing protocols
- •Exercise evaluation and documentation frameworks
- •Findings tracking and remediation approaches
- •Progressive exercise program development
- •Case studies and exercise scenario examples
Bénéfices
Validate the effectiveness of disaster recovery plans and procedures
Build team confidence and competence in executing recovery tasks
Identify and address gaps in recovery capabilities before real incidents
Demonstrate due diligence to auditors, regulators, and stakeholders
Improve the overall resilience and recoverability of critical systems
Témoignages
"This guide completely transformed our approach to DR testing. The progressive exercise framework helped us build a program that steadily improved our capabilities over time."
Andrew Michaels
Western Regional Bank
"The scenario development templates were exactly what we needed to create realistic exercises. Our teams are now much better prepared for actual recovery situations."
Maria Garcia
Healthcare Systems International
