Business continuity planning
The Business Continuity process
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is the process of ensuring that an organization can continue to operate and deliver its products and services in the event of a disruption. A Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is a subset of BCP that focuses on restoring the IT systems and data that support the critical business functions. A DRP typically includes the following steps:
- Identify the potential disaster scenarios that could affect the organization, such as earthquakes, floods, fires, cyberattacks, power outages, etc.
- Assess the impact and likelihood of each scenario on the business operations, assets, resources, and stakeholders. This is also known as a Business Impact Analysis (BIA).
- Define the recovery objectives and strategies for each scenario, such as the Recovery Time Objective (RTO), which is the maximum acceptable time to restore the IT systems and data, and the Recovery Point Objective (RPO), which is the maximum acceptable amount of data loss.
- Develop and document the procedures and responsibilities for implementing the recovery strategies, such as backup and restore, failover, relocation, etc. This includes identifying the roles and tasks of the recovery team, the communication channels, the resources and equipment needed, and the testing and validation methods.
- Train and educate the staff on their roles and responsibilities in the DRP, and conduct regular exercises and tests to ensure the plan is effective and updated.
Business Continuity Plan
We can provide advice and assist in the design your business continuity plan to drive crisis management solutions that will ensure your capability to deliver services to your clients and stakeholder.
We examine and establish risk profiles and resilience methods to design mitigation and elimination strategies that will deliver business as usual functionality with maximum uptime of facilities and your people.
The plan will encapsulate the following processes to form an all-encompassing continuity solution.
- Disaster Recovery Plan
- Resource Strategy Plan
- Transportation Plan
- Communication Plan
We can help your business to build a risk profile and plan solutions for BCP and DRP, Clearview Consultancy can provide the answers to the following services:
Have you considered risks?
We conduct a risk assessment mapping our client’s risk profile
Can you identify impact of risks?
We Identify ways of reducing the likelihood and impact of disruption to client’s business operations
How do you review your business operations?
We review our client’s business operations including type of assets and processes supporting them
Can you define what are critical and dependant functions?
We Identify vital or critical functions and interdependencies
How do you review your business operations?
We perform threat and vulnerability assessments
How do you review your business operations?
We analyse the “what if…?” impact of a disruptive event on client’s operations, customers and suppliers
How do you review your business operations?
We help our clients to develop a business continuity plan and a disaster recovery plan based on best practices and standards
Do you adhere to best practices?
We test client’s plan against realistic scenarios and provide feedback and recommendations for improvement
How can we help train our staff ?
- Train client’s staff on their roles and responsibilities in BCP and DRP
- Provide ongoing support and guidance for maintaining and updating client’s BCP and DRP
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