Business Continuity Planning, BCP

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is not just about disaster recovery and crisis management. It is a business issue that requires action. It presents you with an opportunity to review the way your organization implements its processes, to improve procedures and practices, and increase organizational resilience to interruption and loss.

Business Continuity Management helps your company anticipate incidents that may affect mission critical business functions, and ensures that you can respond in a planned and controlled manner that allows minimal loss of business and productivity so that, at all times, your organization can continue service delivery during and beyond a crisis.

Business Continuity Management is a "risk-based" discipline that includes Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery Planning, Business Impact Analysis, and IT Risk Assessments, which enable an organization to develop into a resilient enterprise.

The process, as shown in the diagram to the left, is a continuing cycle of risk assessment and risk reduction.

1. Know your business: It begins with setting the scope and governance of the program through policy development. If your organization does not have an existing Business Continuity Policy, InfoSight can aid in the development of one.
2. Create the plan: The BCP addresses business disruptions, interruptions or loss from the initial response to the point at which normal business operations are resumed. Building resilience and ensuring mitigation is again a core element of this part of the implementation.
3. Assess the risks: With the BCM Policy in hand, we now have the scope defined so we can analyze and assess the organization for business continuity purposes. Performing a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and an IT Risk Assessment will lead to an in-depth understanding.
4. Test the plan: The development of a BCM capability is achieved by rehearsing team members and staff and testing of technology and procedures, including internal and external audits, and self assessment.

Organizations must make disaster planning a top priority if they are to prevent data loss and maintain business continuity in times of crisis. Unfortunately, day-to-day operations too often usurp the time that IT professionals might otherwise devote to critical disaster planning efforts. That's why you need InfoSight.

Our highly-experienced and knowledgeable analysts offer a wide range of business-related experience enabling us to provide your organization with a clear assessment of your risk and insightful recommendations that will help you realize the many benefits of Business Continuity Management including process review and redesign, incident response planning and risk management.

Contact us to get expert advice on how to keep your organization up and running through interruptions of any kind.

Complementary Services
Business Impact Analysis
Disaster Recovery Planning
Server Replication