Business Continuity Consultancy
What is Business Continuity?
Business Continuity Management is a form of risk management that deals with the threat of business activities or business processes being interrupted by external or internal factors and making your business resilient.
Business continuity involves establishing a process and plan to ensure your business can respond as effectively and quickly as possible in the event of any disruption to critical business functions, to ensure you can continue to provide an acceptable level of service and also minimise the impact of any disruption to your business.
Effective business continuity can help protect organisations from widespread business disruption in the event of a cyber attack or natural disaster and help increase your overall cyber resilience.
Effective business continuity can be attained through the implementation of a business continuity management system (BCMS) such as ISO 22301.
Effective planning ensures your organisation can provide a minimum acceptable level of service and helps preserve your hard won reputation and revenue. It can also lower insurance premiums, provide new contract opportunities and help you avoid regulatory fines.
Business Continuity Standards, Frameworks and Regulatory Requirements ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and the NIS Regulations
There are a growing number of standards, frameworks and regulatory requirements that require organisations to implement measures such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and the NIS Regulations.
Organisations offering essential services (OES’s) are required to implement incident response capabilities and effectively manage business interruptions in line with the requirements of the NIS Regulations (Network and Information Systems Regulations 2018). Digital service providers (DSPs) are required to establish business continuity measures.
Business Continuity Planning
Business continuity involves defining a recovery strategy and defining the processes and procedures for developing, testing and improving your response plan, which will enable an organisation to continue operating during a disaster and quickly return to business as usual.
Business Continuity Testing
One of the most important aspects of Business Continuity is testing. This aspect is often ignored but is as critical as having a BCP plan in place. An untested business continuity plan is as big a risk to the business as not having a plan in place at all.
Disaster Recovery Planning and Testing
If it does all go horribly wrong and you are unfortunate enough to suffer a serious unforeseen incident or data breach caused by a ransomware or zero day attack, then disaster recovery goes one step further than business continuity in enabling businesses to prioritise the rebuilding of and full recovery of impacted infrastructure, systems and restoring data to return to full functionality.
Disaster recovery plans are often technical and focus on the recovery of specific critical infrastructure, operations, functions, sites and services. It is paramount that DR plans are in place and kept up to date for all critical aspects of your organisation.
A business continuity program and disaster recovery plans work hand in hand and BCP will often interlink and reference specific DR plans.
Our Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Consultancy Services
ISO 22301 Consultancy Services
Romano Security Consulting have 18 years’ experience in implementing business continuity and disaster recovery solutions. Let us help you prepare for when the inevitable occurs.
Effective ISO 22301 business continuity management involves the following steps which we can assist you with:
Establishing a business continuity strategy
Assigning responsibilities and escalation paths
Identifying critical activities and critical assets
Performing a business impact analysis (BIA)
Designing and implementing a business continuity plan (BCP)
Staff business continuity and disaster recovery training
Disaster recovery scenario testing
Establishing a continual improvement process for the ongoing evaluation of new and emerging risks
G Cloud Approved Business Continuity Consulting Services
Romano Security Consulting are approved to supply our Business Continuity consulting services under the UK Government Crown Commercial Services G Cloud 13 Digital Market Place.
The Digital Marketplace is an online procurement service for any public sector organisations to procure services, resources and technology for digital projects, quickly and cheaply.
The G Cloud procurement process eliminates the need to go through a full tender process as suppliers have to apply to and be approved by the Crown Commercial Service via the G Cloud application process.
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