Prove the plan before you need it, with scenarios built around your own organisation.
Exercising turns a written plan into practised capability. It shows whether the plan meets its objectives, reveals gaps while there is still time to amend it, and prepares people for what they would actually do. ADVOX designs customised incident scenarios, continuity exercises and tests in line with ISO 22301 and the BCI Good Practice Guidelines (GPG 7.0).
Every exercise is shaped around your organisation’s own risks, so the people taking part work through situations that feel real to them. This work sits inside ADVOX’s wider business continuity consultancy and supports your operational resilience.
The right type depends on what you want to learn and how far your plans have come. Many organisations build up from one to the next.
A structured read-through of the plan with the people who own it, checking it covers the right objectives and spotting gaps on paper.
A facilitated discussion in which the team talks a scenario through step by step and tests who would do what.
The most realistic test, where the team responds to a developing scenario much as it would on the day.
Choose a theme that matches your risks, or ask ADVOX to shape a scenario of your own.
A phishing email leads to ransomware, and key systems go dark.
A large share of staff cannot attend work for an extended period.
A fire or another incident closes an office or a site.
Extreme heat or flooding disrupts a facility, a route or a workforce.
A utility or data centre outage cuts power to critical operations.
Connectivity fails, and teams cannot reach systems or each other.
The organisation must reach staff and stakeholders quickly while the situation keeps changing.
See ADVOX’s Incident Response and Crisis Management Simulations.
Each scenario is shaped around your organisation’s own risks. To build the skill in-house, see the BCI course Designing and Delivering Effective Exercises.
Each exercise follows the same simple path, so everyone knows what to expect and what comes out of it.
ADVOX works with you to agree what the exercise should prove, who should take part and which plans it will test.
A scenario is built around your own risks and critical activities, with a storyline that develops as the exercise goes on.
ADVOX facilitates, online or in person, so the team can test decisions, roles and communication without live consequences.
The team reviews what worked and what did not, and the findings and actions are recorded so the plan can be improved.
See how your arrangements compare with the standard.
Advisory, review, exercising and training for cyber and IT continuity.
Practise your response before a real incident.
We aim to reply to your enquiry within 2 hours.
This page is general information, not legal, regulatory or compliance advice.