Business Continuity Planning

Prepare for disruptive events to ensure business survival.
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Business Continuity Planning

 

Whether your business is affected by natural disasters or disruptive network outages, ensuring continuity of operations and protecting vital data is necessary for business survival. 

 

Companies invest time, money and resources to create solid business continuity plans in order to ensure speedy disaster recovery and enhanced information security. The planning process is a significant project requiring risk assessment, in-depth interviews with key employees, evaluation of business processes and technologies, backup and recovery strategies, and testing of the plan.

 

RSA Corp works with businesses to develop and refine their continuity plans and disaster recovery procedures in order to ensure all processes and technologies are considered and common mistakes are avoided. We know how important it is to get business back up and running as quickly as possible.  Our project managers and experienced consultants follow proven methodology to manage the continuity planning process.

 

Continuity planning steps include...

  • Determine business risks and scenarios to be addressed
  • Identify critical business functions and required resources
  • Assess the impact of each scenario on each critical business functions
  • Identify strategies to mitigate impact
  • Develop procedures to follow in responding to disruptive events
  • Develop business recovery procedures
  • Assist in testing the plan
  • Training staff to execute the plan
  • Establish a process for regular maintenance of the plan

 

Disruptive events occur. Insurance doesn't guarantee the survival of your business. Survival is the responsibility of management. RSA Corp can help you construct a business continuity plan to improve your odds.

  • Case Study: Failure to Recognize Key Vendors
    • A Galveston-based bank initiated steps to prepare its business in the event a catastrophic hurricane came through the Gulf Coast. The bank created a continuity plan focused on addressing information security and employee safety. During Hurricane Rita in 2006, the bank executed its continuity plan only to realize one fatal flaw. After ensuring the safety of its employees and preparing its facility, the last step was to ship the backup hard drive to a protected location. What the bank didn't realize was that the post office, DHL, UPS and FedEx had already shut down business and evacuated the coast. Had the bank fully tested its procedures, it would have realized the crucial nature of that step.
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