The goals of this year’s test were to: assess the ability of securities market participants to operate through a significant emergency from their backup data centers and work area recovery sites and to examine the overall level of resiliency of the markets; assess the ability of firms and markets to handle a delayed market opening, and provide firms and exchanges with an opportunity to test and evaluate their backup communications with the markets.
For the full summary report, go to: http://www.sifma.org/services/business_continuity/industry_test/2008-Industry-Test-Results.pdf