ISOG security consultants can design, coordinate and conduct a variety of exercises at any kind of facility, ship, port or airport, to help train, prepare and validate the client’s ability to respond to various accidental or intentional incidents. The lessons learned from these exercises will be then incorporated into the client’s Security Plan.

 

After developing and implementing a Security Plan, this plan needs testing in order to verify whether all risks and aspects of security breaches have been taken into consideration. The response of the security officers and teams should be exercised as well. Exercises are intended to identify weaknesses at a time and in an environment where there is no impact. It is better to make the mistakes during an exercise than to discover them during an actual incident.

 

Before starting any exercise, it is necessary to determine what should be exercised. This should normally be part of an approved Security Plan, in which all procedures for responding to different security scenarios are described. If a well developed plan is in place, ISOG security consultants then can immediately begin an exercise program that involves a full range of response actions.

 

There are various levels of exercises that can be conducted at the client’s facility, on a client’s computer network, on a ship or involving an entire port or airport. They may be announced or unannounced.