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Resilience Plans Fail When Reality Changes the Scenario
Financial institutions must treat operational resilience as a continuously evolving discipline rather than a periodic testing requirement. Risk practitioners argue that increasingly plausible cyber, third-party and technology disruptions demand progressive scenarios, clear executive accountability, credible workarounds and the ability to adapt rapidly when several responses must happen simultaneously.
Sep 07, 2026
Center for Financial Professionals ,
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Vendor and Third Party Risk
Resilience
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- Scenario testing
should evolve as threats and business models change
- Resilience must be
embedded into transformation and organizational culture
- Executive support is
critical to effective resilience programs
- Impact tolerances
require continuous reassessment
- Real disruptions
demand multiple responses running simultaneously
- Customer and
regulatory communication must accompany operational recovery
- Growing automation
increases the importance of credible manual workarounds
- Testing should expose
weaknesses and drive investment priorities
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