Towards a successful exercise implementation – a case study of exercise methodologies

Abstract

The entire world faces various threats, with a significantly increasing rate. These threats are associated with international terrorism, natural catastrophes, power cuts due to cyber-attacks etc. Without doubt there is a need that an industrial or critical infrastructure should be prepared to face such threats. There exist several methodologies which give guidelines on how to organize and implement an exercise to address these threats at various time instances. After a short description of some of these methodologies, this paper investigates whether they are compliant with the standard ISO. Also, this paper proposes appropriate changes in order for these methodologies to be compliant with the standard and, thus, to become more effective.