Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity Planning is the way an organization can prepare for and aid in disaster recovery. It is an arrangement agreed upon in advance by management and key personnel of the steps that will be taken to help the organization recover should any type of disaster occur.

Disaster Recovery (DR) is the process an organization uses to recover access to their software, data, and/or hardware that are needed to resume the performance of normal, critical business functions after the event of either a natural disaster or a disaster caused by humans.

Business continuity/Disaster Recovery Plans come in various forms, each reflecting the corporation's particular set of circumstances. The BCP/ER plan contents in brief:

• Develop Policy Statement - goal of plan, reasons, and resources
• Business Impact Analysis - how does a shutdown impact the business financially and otherwise
• Identify Preventive Steps - can a disaster be avoided by taking prudent steps
• Recovery Strategies - how and what you will need to recover
• Plan Development - Write a plan and implement plan elements
• Plan buy-in and testing - especially important so that everyone knows the plan and knows what to do
• Maintenance - continuous changes to reflect the current situation
• Assessment.

The e-InnoSec team has worked on both process and technical aspects of the Business Continuity and is uniquely qualified to provide highly practical solutions.

BCM Program Assessment

• Crisis Management Plan
• Incident Response Plans
• Business Resumption Plans
• IT Disaster Recovery Plan
• Program Maturity Assessment

Business Impact Analysis

• Identify the critical business functions and assess the impacts of business disruption on critical business processes
• Analyze and determine the critical business process, recovery objectives, and reliance on business applications and 3rd parties

Conduct Risk Assessment

• Identify and quantify the business continuity risks, both internal and external, that threaten the operation of critical business units and processes
• Create a risk-impact chart to record the risk and priority
• Determine likelihood, significance, and velocity of business impact
• Recovery Strategy Development and Implementation
• Develop recovery strategies designed to minimize impact from an outage
• Develop and document crisis management, business resumption, and IT DR plans

IT Disaster Recovery

• Determine, document, and implement technical recovery options for IT DR needs
• Design and execute IT DR testing

BCM Testing and Training

• Design and facilitate business continuity or crisis management exercises
• Use Securetain BCM training courses to train key personnel responsible for recovery activities
• Business Continuity Planning Outsourcing
• Support with business continuity planning personnel
• Update your plan and facilitate periodic tests
• Ensure business continuity management plan is ready and actionable

Continuity Project Management

• Assist with BCM Project Management
• Assist in setting BCM Project Management Office (PMO)