Applying Innovation to Enhance Scenario Testing

In the evolving risk landscape, resilience testing has never been more important. This has been emphasised through the UK Governments Resilience Framework with its focus on the National Exercise Programme (NEP), exemplifying a strategic shift towards embedding resilience as a core national value. This proactive stance is partly driven by the EU’s Critical Entities Resilience Directive (CER), where stress testing is a key component. Additionally, PS21/3 for building operational resilience was created to ensure that customers, firms, and financial markets do not suffer intolerable harm from disruptions within the UK financial sector.

Such initiatives highlight a broader narrative: resilience testing is a foundational building block, not an optional add-on.

We believe that our 4Di platform becomes a game-changing enabler for organisations looking to test and build its resilience. 4Di is a scenario-based digital simulation platform that builds the resilience of organisations in a versatile and dynamic format. It creates an immersive, engaging, and time-pressured experience through which organisations can develop readiness for any disruptive event and innovate the delivery of learning and decision making within an organisation.

Dealing with disruption and emergencies is a matter of when, not if in today’s dynamic threat landscape. 4Di’s versatile capability enables the testing of a range of scenarios that can be tailored to a range of organisations and sectors with a configurable set of injects from an inject library.

Regulators are now requiring organisations to validate their testing data, rather than just providing qualitative assertions about resilience. This is where 4Di innovates resilience testing, the platform collects all data inputted into the platform with readily available reports that can be used as evidence for regulatory reporting requirements. The data can also be used to provide evidence based-based insights for considering the effectiveness and efficiency of decision-making processes on whether impact tolerances have been breached, enabling identified areas of improvements. 

Being able to make swift but effective decisions under pressure is a crucial element of an informed and rapid response for effectively managing and mitigating a crisis or unforeseen incident. 4Di enables a shared view of situational awareness and decision-making by capturing and recoding decisions as teams traverse through their various plans, such as contingency, mitigation, and communication plans.

Regulators have put a focus on testing the supply chain due to the integral role they play in responding to an incident. 4Di addresses these through its multi-team feature, allowing joint testing scenarios, such as an organisation engaging with its critical suppliers during a simulation, ensuring both parties responses are synchronised and effective. Moreover, 4Di can test the response to major incidents that have a sector wide impact through collaboration between multiple organisations within an industry, allowing for a coordinated response.

We have been actively demonstrating 4Di’s capabilities with various clients, and if you’re interested in learning more about these experiences, please visit our website for a wealth of information.