headlines

a company wishing to remain competitive and successful must be able to recover and continue to operate in the event of serious business interruption

continuity planning is proactive - reasonable steps now prepare your response to potential later unacceptable risk

commissum can help you cut to essentials, ultimately saving you money in defining your requirements based on business criticality analysis

commissum will manage the BCP process to ensure you:

satisfy Corporate Governance requirements

reduce the probability of a disaster

minimise the impact of a disaster if it happens

maintain or even increase shareholder value

potentially decrease insurance premiums

issues

Despite adopting the best security practice, there will always be some residual risk. There is an increasing awareness that a company wishing to remain competitive and successful must take measures to continue profitably in the event of any serious business interruption introduced by these risks.

Continuity planning is proactive, ensuring an organisation takes reasonable steps now to prepare their response to the potential later occurrence of unacceptable risks.

Many organisations adopt an "it won't happen to me" attitude for BCP. It is an essential part of prudent business practice, demanded by Corporate Governance in many regulated sectors, that viable continuity and contingency plans exist.

approach

The key is to prevent disasters from becoming catastrophic, with a focus on everything that is needed to continue the key business processes. A commissum expert can help you cut through to essentials, and ultimately help save you money in defining your requirements based on business criticality analysis.

• review business risks - what will be the impact on the business if there are system or network failures for significant periods in the business cycle?
• classify criticality of IT processes - map risks onto IS processes and identify criticality of processes. Identify the architectural elements providing critical services and draw up a recovery schedule for key processes
• options analysis - draw up options for business process recovery, and identify recovery strategies. Compare feasibility of in-house and third party recovery solutions (including effect on cultural integrity)
• select stand-by solutions and providers - manage the tendering process for a provider of stand-by services (call-out, central service or hybrid)
• produce Continuity Plans - produce the plans and schedules for "business as usual" during catastrophic failures and emergencies. Ensure that plan invocation thresholds are defined and understood
• test Continuity Plans - conduct tests and exercises to ensure the viability of contingency plans. Include policies - communications, personnel, procedural, physical and technology aspects are all tested
• provide stand-by crisis management team - designate members of the commissum team on call-out, to help manage the continuity invocation and management

customer benefits

A commissum independent expert will manage the BCP process for you, so as not to detract from the normal conduct of your business.

• satisfy Corporate Governance requirements
• reduce the probability of a disaster
• minimise the impact of a disaster if it happens
• maintain or even increase shareholder value
• potential to decrease insurance premiums

Note: You can download details of this service as a Adobe Acrobat PDF by clicking on the button above. If you do not already have Acrobat Reader, you can download it for free from the downloads page.