Business Continuity Planning
Many organizations don’t have a business continuity plan, or the existing plan is out of date and ineffective. Our review of existing business continuity and disaster recovery plans usually finds:
- The plan doesn’t provide clear, concise direction to the teams who must respond to a disaster
- The plan is outdated and doesn’t reflect current business
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessment are missing, but required by regulations
- Contacts and reference material are outdated
- The plan isn’t tested regularly and isn’t understood by the people who need to implement it
Planning Challenges
Organizations are recognizing the risk in not having an effective business continuity plan. Large companies respond by dedicating staff to business continuity and disaster recovery planning. Smaller organizations usually assign the job, on a part time basis, to someone less familiar with effective planning principles. Often, this results in a slow process that bogs down in details, wastes a lot of staff time, and doesn't create an effective business continuity plan.
Our Approach
Morlok Technologies can lead an effective and efficient business continuity planning process for your organization. We form and lead an enterprise-wide planning team, or assist you in leading the team. Our process includes
- Business Impact Analysis that establishes and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for key processes
- Risk assessment related to threats and your organization’s preparation for disasters and business continuation
- Alternate site and command center planning
- Disaster recovery team structure and communications
- Recovery scripts and processes
- Plan testing
- Plan updates
- Conformance with FFIEC, HIPAA, and SEC regulations
- Consideration for interagency and Homeland Security guidance
Our planning approach provides value to your organization by reducing the risk of business disruptions, improving your ability to quickly recover from disasters, and allowing you to focus on business issues and key decisions that you need to make.
Trust us to lead your planning process. We can accelerate the plan development process and help you to create an up to date and effective business continuity plan. Contact us for additional information.