Operational Resilience Testing, Including Threat Led Penetration Testing

About this course

Resilience testing treated as a standing operating discipline rather than an annual event, for the operational resilience lead, information security officer or internal auditor at a regulated financial services or financial technology entity. Covers the real difference between ordinary testing and advanced testing against live production systems using realistic threat scenarios, the difficulty and ethics of scoping a test against critical functions without damaging the systems customers depend on, why qualification and independence requirements for advanced testers exist, what genuinely distinguishes threat led testing from testing that borrows its vocabulary, and the common conflation between an attack simulation and a disaster recovery drill. It works through what an entity owes once a test finds something serious, including remediation evidence rather than assertion, and why results are only valuable once they change the risk management framework covered in course 1120 rather than sitting in a report. It closes with proportionality for smaller entities and the governance that keeps a multi year programme honest. This is training material and not legal or regulatory advice, it prints no article numbers, instrument references or reporting clocks, and it closes with the questions to take to your own supervisor and counsel.