With total assets of more than c290 billion, WestLB AG is one of the leading providers of financial services in Germany and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Landesbank NRW. WestLB had previously completed various forms of disaster recovery testing and had exercised their crisis management plan for Y2K, but they hadn't tested it in response to other types of incidents. Insight worked with WestLB to develop and run a series of crisis management exercises.
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