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Super Duper Tabletop Disaster Scenarios

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Written by Phil on April 7, 2010 in Business Continuity, Testing.

Think you’re “ready for anything”? Think again.

Are your business continuity plans battle-tested? Gather the team, get out your cinnamon-scented whiteboard markers and work through these useful business continuity and disaster recovery tabletop scenarios.

See Super Duper Tabletop Disaster Scenarios, by Derek Slater for CSO Security and Risk.

For more serious scenarios, see Tabletop Exercises: Three Sample Scenarios – six tips and three scenarios to get you started on a tabletop exercise, by Sarah D. Scalet.

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An unexercised contingency plan could be worse than no plan at all!

Be sure to read Disaster Recovery Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan, Philip Jan Rothstein, FBCI, Editor – the only book on this subject – for valuable tips, techniques and insights. Now only $49.00!

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