EMC’s Business Continuity Preparedness Exercises and Plans
Every year, EMC conducts a series of business continuity preparedness (BCP) exercises to ensure that staff are well-prepared should a crisis occur. The following exercises were completed as part of our workplan for the financial year 2022/2023:
| Exercise |
Date |
Activity/Description |
| Disaster Recovery Preparedness Exercises |
September 2022, November 2022 & May 2023 |
- Switchover and switchback of the NEMS systems between primary and backup site.
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| Exercise Thunderbolt |
October 2022 |
- Staff were evacuated from the office to simulate an emergency situation. This was the first year that a physical evacuation was conducted since the Covid-19 pandemic.
- The exercise was conducted in conjunction with the BCP Site Readiness Test.
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| BCP Site Readiness Test |
October 2022 |
- The BCP site recovery plan was activated immediately after Exercise Thunderbolt.
- Recovery teams worked from an alternate office site.
- Identified personnel worked from home using a loaned laptop.
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| Exercise Epsilon/ EMC Call Tree Activation |
November 2022 |
- As part of the industry-wide Exercise Epsilon, EMC management team and identified personnel had to report to the office within the pre-specified timeframe.
- All staff were alerted of the Exercise through their mobile phones.
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| Home Quarantine Order Exercise |
April 2023 |
- Recovery team members tested their critical business functions operations while working from home.
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| Desktop Scenario Test |
May 2023 |
- Crisis Management Team, business units’ BCP representatives and identified personnel were involved.
- Desktop exercise was conducted to test the robustness of the business unit’s incident response plans and business continuity procedures.
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| Exercise Jaguar |
May 2023 |
- Industry-wide BCP exercise to practise the coordinated response of the energy industry in the management of major power and gas system crisis, as well as cyber-attacks.
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