BUSINESS CONTINUITY
/ DISASTER RECOVERY
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
planning is a multi-phase consulting service which provides specific audit
points within the engagement. Our engagement begins with the discovery and
valuation phases and ends with testing and change management. The information
uncovered during discovery will have a direct effect on the time and resources
required to complete the plan and move to the testing phases. This phased
approach provides our clients with a cost-effective BC/DR plan.
We break our Business Continuity/Disaster
Recovery engagements into four phases: Phase 1: Discovery
- Identifying business critical functions
- Identifying the resources and systems
that support the critical functions
- Management validation on findings
- Cost / Valuation analysis
Phase 2: Mitigation and Recovery Strategies - Executive endorsement of corporate
mitigation and recovery objectives
- Identification of mitigation and recovery
strategies for:
- Backup methods/Alternate site
- Equipment replacement/Vendor agreements
- Cost considerations/Cost benefit analysis
- Vendor supplied equipment
- Supporting personnel
- Documentation of key processes within
business units lacking sufficient supporting documentation
- Development of a proposed mitigation and
recovery plan with a focus on physical recovery of physical equipment,
information assets, facilities and personnel, recovery of information systems,
selection of recovery teams, financial continuity and communications
Review of recovery plans for the field offices
Phase 3: Plan Documentation & Implementation
- Executive approval on the proposed plan
- Comprehensive documentation including
high level policies, procedures and guidelines for recovery
- Management validation on findings
- Cost / Valuation analysis
Phase 4: Testing & Maintenance
- Development of policies and procedures
for testing, training and maintenance of the plan, including:
- Training recovery teams, managers and
staff
- Development of testing plan and
procedures
- Development of maintenance procedures for
the plan
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