“Does each person in the organization know what to do during an emergency?” and “Does each continuity plan achieve it’s intended purpose?”
Continuity training is designed to familiarize personnel with an organization’s existing continuity plans, and impart necessary skills for the continuation of the organization’s essential functions. Testing and Exercising add the necessary real-world pressure to verify the viability of these plans, and prove whether or not they are capable of supporting continued execution of the organization’s essential functions.
Types of continuity exercises:
“Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense, but in ourselves.”
– Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
