Business Continuity

Planning for the activity and cost of defining a program that includes processes and tests with the goal of mitigating the impact of a crisis will not typically be a project affordable by startups that are hand-to-mouth.  However, as a business expands and develops more comprehensive and integrated activities, and when there is more to lose causing the risk appetite of a business to decrease, investing resources in crisis planning and management becomes desirable if not necessary. Business Continuity (BC) is the term used to describe the entire program including service restoration and disaster recovery (DR).

Worldwide-Privacy’s experienced consultants can provide:

Defining services – One of the first steps in BC planning is to understand the services that may be impacted by an incident or event. Understanding mission critical services and the integration with other services and business processes is a requirement as input to any BC plan and program.

Risk assessment– Understanding risks that may cause a business interruption

Business impact analysis (BIA)- Determining which parts of the business must be recovered, how quickly recovery must be achieved, and in what order each segment should be addressed – if at all (meaning some parts of a business may remain in a down state perpetually or until the crisis is over).  By conducting a BIA a business can determine, down to the level of granularity required (e.g. business line or individual service) the recovery time objective (RTO) and the recovery point objective (RPO).

Business continuity plan creation and test – Business continuity plans describe the actions to be taken during an incident to assure the continuity of those services that have been deemed critical. Testing ensures that the plan will achieve the intended goal – to restore services within the service level agreements in place.

Disaster recovery plan and test – A disaster recovery (DR) plan is intended to restore technical infrastructure and operations to a level that will allow services to be restored. Worldwide-Privacy will work with your IT team to create the DR plan rightsized for your service level agreements and budget.