10. Under exceptional circumstances triggering risks of impact on data, damage to assets, and disruption to critical or important functions, services or operations of the financial entity itself, of its ICT third-party service providers or ICT intragroup services providers, or disruptions to its counterparts or to the financial sector, the control team lead may suspend the TLPT, or, as a last resort, where the continuation of the TLPT is not otherwise possible and subject to prior validation by the TLPT authority, continue the TLPT using a limited purple teaming exercise. The duration of the limited purple teaming exercise shall be counted for the purpose of the 12-week minimum duration of the active red team testing phase referred to in paragraph 5.