Wednesday, November 7, 2007

National Financial Services Pandemic Exercise: Part 2

The national financial service exercise successfully ran for three weeks. I was surprised by the depth of the scenario and by the number of firms participating.

The exercise site recently became open to all. Regardless of if you work for a financial services firm, this exercise is worth the time to review. If you have responsibility for business continuity in your organization, this exercise is a goldmine and could be used to guide your own tabletop exercises --its rare to get an exercise of this depth developed for free. For individuals, the exercise materials provide great insight into with this critical sector is thinking on the pandemic front.

Exercise Overview http://www.fspanfluexercise.com/Exercise%20Overview_Final.pdf

Pandemic Exercise FAQ: http://www.fspanfluexercise.com/Pandemic%20Exercise%20FAQs.pdf

Pre-Exercise Scenario Brief: http://www.fspanfluexercise.com/Private/PanFlu%20Brief_PreExercise_v3.pdf T

The Exercise itself utilizes projections of sickness, spread, absenteeism, CFR, impact on hospitals, distribution, etc. I think it is may be a little rosy...but it's fairly detailed and it shows that the financial services sector has been thinking seriously about this.

Pandemic Timeline:

Weeks 1 and 2: http://www.fspanfluexercise.com/Private/PanFlu%20Scenario%20Update%201.pdf

Weeks 3 through 6: http://www.fspanfluexercise.com/Private/PanFlu%20Scenario%20Update%202_v3.pdf

Weeks 7 - 10: http://www.fspanfluexercise.com/Private/PanFlu%20Scenario%20Update%203_v1.pdf

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