Business Continuity
You have a business plan for your company; shouldn't you also have a business continuity plan specifically designed for your company?
Operating without one carries potential risks:
- Inability to maintain critical customer services
- Damage to your market share, image, reputation or brand
- Failure to protect the company assets (including intellectual property and personnel)
- Business control failure
- Failure to meet legal or regulatory requirements
Business continuity planning is the process designed to reduce your organization's business risk from unexpected disruption of critical functions and operations necessary for the survival or your organization. Factors that influence business continuity include:
- Data and system backup and restore (onsite & offsite)
- System & Data failover, redundancy
- Management of system performance, capacity
- System vulnerabilities & threats
- Disruptions to internal systems, telecommunications, applications, Web access
- Operation of environmental systems
- Natural disasters and other interruptions to key company systems
Disaster recovery planning is the plan put in place to recover from a disaster or interruption of key services. The disaster recovery plan includes:
- Creating business continuity and disaster recovery policies
- Business impact analysis
- Classification of operations and criticality analysis
- Development of a business continuity plan and disaster recovery procedures
- Training and awareness, Testing
- Ongoing Monitoring
Consultants are available today to discuss how we can help you with your business continuity planning needs.