Validating Your Business Continuity Plan: Ensuring your BCP actually works

PREFACE

Validating your business continuity plan (BCP) can be broken down into three component parts – exercising, maintenance and review. In considering each of these three components, this book also takes account of industry standards and guidelines to help steer the reader through the validation process.

“A classic failing of a great many business continuity plans, is that they are written and then left on the shelf.” (Drewitt, 2013)

Too many organisations complete their BCPs and then just put them on the shelf to gather dust, without a thought about verifying that the plans actually work. They seem to miss the point that business continuity management is a process of continuous improvement and that the validation phase is a vital constituent ...