Automated crisis simulation for business continuity planning (bcp)

A crisis simulator, comprising:

• a user interface (UI) for presenting a crisis notification associated with a mobile network;
• a communications interface for accessing network information to determine whether the crisis notification is a fake crisis notification associated with a crisis simulation;
• wherein the UI receives crisis validity information based on the network information accessed via the communication interface indicating whether the crisis notification is a fake crisis notification associated with the crisis simulation;
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• in response to the receiving the crisis validity information indicating the crisis notification is a real crisis notification, providing an alert to a manager of the mobile network that the crisis notification is associated with a real crisis and presenting a crisis response for addressing the real crisis;
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• in response to the receiving the crisis validity information indicating the crisis notification is associated with the crisis simulation, providing an alert to the manager of the mobile network that the crisis notification is associated with the crisis simulation and to initiate a drill according to a predetermined protocol to address the crisis simulation.

A non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

• entering data in a crisis simulation User Interface (UI) to define a crisis simulation;
• receiving a notification of a crisis associated with a mobile network;
• determining whether the notification of the crisis is a fake crisis notification associated with the crisis simulation;
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• in response to the notification being determined to be a real crisis notification, notifying a manager of the mobile network of a real crisis and ending the crisis simulation;
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• in response to the notification being determined to be the fake crisis notification associated with the crisis simulation, notifying the manager of the mobile network to initiate a drill according to a predetermined protocol to address the crisis simulation, and initiating the drill according to the predetermined protocol to address the crisis simulation.