business continuity planning

Don’t let the verbose nature of standards documentation such as NIST, HIPAA, PCI, and others overcomplicate your mandate to ensure your business continuity management program (DRP, BCP, and crisis management) is compliant. Use the checklists in this blueprint to cut through the noise.

Create an effective, right-sized DRP: discover current capabilities, define business requirements, and close gaps to deliver service continuity.

Build an effective crisis management plan around a framework that enables your organization to respond to any crisis and manage the impact; from health and safety incidents to business disruptions to reputational damage.

You have critical infrastructure and systems in a location that is prone to power outages. You must maintain service continuity and critical systems, whether it is an unexpected event or planned rolling blackouts.

COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic. IT departments must do their part to develop a pandemic response plan.

This blueprint offers guidance, tools, and templates to ensure that if an emergency hits your organization, forcing your employees to work remotely, you can effectively execute a remote work plan from day one.

As the post-pandemic landscape begins to take shape, ensure that IT can effectively prepare and support your employees as they move back into the office. Once the office repatriation is complete, focus on restarting the engine of the project portfolio mid-pandemic, but know that it won’t be as...

Implement a structured and repeatable process, applied to one business unit at a time. Keep BCP planning efforts manageable and enable business unit leads to own their BCP in the future.

The traditional DRP “red binder” is dead. It takes too long to create, it’s too hard to maintain, and it’s not usable in a crisis.