Building muscle memory through Crisis Exercises
In today’s fast-paced and unpredictable world, ensuring your organization’s resilience and preparedness is paramount.
At Bryghtpath, we specialize in designing, facilitating, and evaluating comprehensive crisis exercises that enable your team, including your board & executive leaders, to practice and refine their plans and procedures.
Our tailored crisis exercise solutions, including tabletop exercises, continuity exercises, reputational exercises, and crisis simulations, are designed to identify areas of opportunity and bolster your organization’s resilience.
Our crisis exercises are crafted to provide realistic and challenging scenarios that require your team to respond effectively under pressure. From facilitator-led tabletop exercises that build confidence and muscle memory to complex simulation exercises that mimic real-life crises, we ensure your team is ready for any situation.
Our after-action reporting captures valuable lessons learned, offering concrete recommendations for continuous improvement.
Our team has been trained by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Management Institute (FEMA EMI) in the Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program (HSEEP-1) requirements for exercise programs.
Looking for other crisis exercise options? Our Exercise in a Box®️ product offers ready-to-go tabletop exercise scenarios that you can use right away, while our Exercise in a Day®️ product will deliver a custom tabletop exercise in just one day.
Solutions
Our crisis exercise solutions can be tailored to deliver results in the following areas for your organization:
- Development and facilitation of crisis exercises to practice your plans and procedures, identify areas of opportunity and improve your resilience. Our expertise includes tabletop exercises, continuity exercises, reputational exercises, and crisis simulations.
- Tabletop exercises where a facilitator leads your team through a discussion-based exercise, engineered to achieve your goals while building confidence and muscle memory for your team.
- Simulation exercises that require your team to react to multiple simultaneous inputs across several channels, just as in real life, while using your plans & procedures to respond under pressure.
- After-action reporting following an incident or exercise to capture lessons learned and develop concrete recommendations for improvement
- Support to leaders, senior executives, and Boards of Directors following an incident
- Standards: ISO 22361, ISO 22301, and ISO 27031, NIMS/ICS, HSEEP-1, HITRUST, Joint Commission, NIST CSF, and the DHS/FEMA National Frameworks
Exercise in a Box®️
Managing crisis & continuity exercises across an organization is a tall order.
That’s why we’ve developed a set of crisis & continuity exercises that can be executed by a business leader in an hour or less – and don’t require expert facilitation from a crisis management or business continuity team.
Our Exercise in a Box™ scenarios and materials were written by the battle-tested experts in crisis management, business continuity, and crisis communications at Bryghtpath.
Exercise in a Day®️
At Bryghtpath, we understand that time is of the essence in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. Designing business continuity & crisis management exercises should not be an endurance test, which is why we’ve developed our innovative Exercise in a Day®️ product.
With Exercise in a Day®️, you’ll get a comprehensive, customized, ready-to-execute crisis tabletop exercise developed by our team of experts in just one day.
Case Studies
We have extensive global experience developing, facilitating, and evaluating crisis exercises, including tabletop exercises, simulation exercises, and cybersecurity exercises.
Learn more about our industry-specific experience or our crisis management, crisis communications, and business continuity capabilities by clicking on the applicable links.
- A global healthcare organization, recently spun off from its parent company, retained Bryghtpath to develop, facilitate, and evaluate a Crisis Management Tabletop Exercise. Read the full case study here.
- One of the largest healthcare systems in the United States retained Bryghtpath to conduct and evaluate a systemwide mass casualty tabletop exercise to test their strategies, capabilities, and plans at a system level. Read the full case study by clicking here.
- A major U.S. healthcare organization, seeking to practice their recently updated cybersecurity incident response plan, turned to Bryghtpath to conduct a multi-day complex ransomware exercise. Read the full case study by clicking here.
- A primary U.S. healthcare technology provider, seeking to develop new solutions to the challenges of ransomware and cyberextortion attacks, retained Bryghtpath to conduct tabletop exercises for their IT & technology product teams. Read the full case study by clicking here.
- We developed and conducted a business continuity exercise for a major U.S. healthcare organization to help them improve resilience and meet their compliance & regulatory obligations. Read the full case study here.
- A major U.S. electric, natural gas, and nuclear energy company, seeking to elevate executive leadership’s crisis response capabilities and engagement, turned to Bryghtpath to exercise both their crisis management framework and build enterprise familiarity with the complexities of an active shooter situation. Read the full case study here.
- Bryghtpath worked with a midwest integrated health system of clinics, hospitals, and emergency medical services to conduct a series of exercises intended to improve their response to production information systems disruptions. The exercise series led to widespread changes in the organization’s incident management processes for information technology incidents, including tighter integration with the organization’s emergency management framework
Insights
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