How to Build and Automate a Resilient Business Continuity Testing Program
When the pandemic hit, a lot of organizations found out the hard way that having a business continuity plan (BCP) and having a tested business continuity plan are two very different things. Plans that looked complete on paper fell apart in practice. Not because they were poorly written, but because the assumptions inside them had never been put under real pressure. And it wasn't just the pandemic. Geopolitical instability, supply chain failures, widespread cyber incidents, and extended infrastructure outages have each forced the same uncomfortable realization: organizations weren't facing unpredictable "black swan" events. In many cases, they were facing foreseeable disruptions at a scale they had simply never validated against.
