Article 10 - The Home as an Alternate Command Post

When headquarters goes dark, leadership does not stop; it relocates.

Executives are rarely prepared for the moment their home becomes the company’s alternate command post. Yet during a regional crisis or cyber event, continuity often depends on how quickly leadership can re-establish communication, access data, and direct response from personal environments. A resilient home office can sustain operations for days. That means tested power, redundant connectivity, hard copies of essential documents and secure space. Without these layers, when the lights flicker, leadership continuity ends.

We Are Red Teaming: Whether an executive’s residence can sustain 48 to 72 hours of command-level decisions, coordination, and escalation.

Mitigation Actions:
• Home continuity fails when executives have not rehearsed command decisions from personal environments.
• Install and test a propane-powered generator or solar battery system that can run essential home systems such as lighting and communications for a minimum of 72 hours.
• Maintain satellite internet (Starlink) and redundant communications routing that do not depend on a single ISP.
• Keep offline, encrypted copies of critical playbooks and contacts stored in a separate hard drive in a small safe.
• Set up a private workspace with analog backups such as a landline, NOAA storm radio, whiteboard, and printed directories to reach key personnel.
• Practice continuity of operations at least twice a year to test comms and systems, so that a real-world contingency is not the first time the residential command post goes live.

Resilient organizations depend on resilient leaders who plan ahead. Could your home office keep your company running if headquarters went offline tonight?