Business continuity is a discipline where SRE and Security meet: they both care about mitigating risks and keeping services available and secure. Whereas it’s often clear how to engineers respond to and manage incident, disasters that threaten a business’ ability to operate their core functions (luckily) don’t occur that frequently and often involve a different group of decision makers. To improve any organization’s resiliency, it’s advisable to run business continuity drills without breaking all applications for our users: this is where simulations and tabletop drills can help you out.

In this talk, Janna will share her experiences in creating and running a business continuity drill as a joint effort by Security and SRE teams at WeTransfer. She will share a step-by-step guide for creating a tabletop business continuity drill, including real-life examples, and what her team learned along the way. This way, the audience will leave with the knowledge required to become game masters of their own drills.