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In a world of heightened security risks, business continuity is increasingly being viewed as an essential business process.
A business continuity plan is no longer just “nice to have”. It is a requirement in many industries including healthcare, financial and government and a necessity for all other businesses.
Today, customers view organizations that are not prepared to deal with a disruption with concern, and even alarm. This is especially true if your customer is a supplier to a major just-in-time manufacturer, or a critical supplier to the defense industry. Government organizations are under increasing pressure to be prepared for natural and terrorist crises.
This volatile situation creates anxiety for managers, both for their organizations and for themselves. Their uncertainty about how to proceed prompts them to choose a vendor to help them solve the problem based on their comfort with that vendor. Price is a secondary consideration. They do not want to lose their job because they selected the wrong resource.
Consolidated Technologies, Inc. (CTI) provides the analysis and planning necessary to prevent outages or reduce the time to recover during a disaster. These plans and the analysis cover a complete range of risk evaluation, risk reduction and ongoing support services. Business continuity planning provides for business recovery and continuance during and after a disruption or disaster. This service is appropriate for all businesses, small to large, schools and government agencies.
CTI can help organizations design and implement a disaster-recovery plan for their enterprises—allowing business to continue performing smoothly during and after a disruption.
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The CTI Business Continuity Service includes three basic service elements to address business continuity planning needs:
Risk Assessment
A comprehensive review of business and network communication disaster readiness. The risk assessment could include the following: |
- Business continuity policy review
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
- Physical threat assessment
- Security assessment
- Assessment of current recovery plans and processes
- Development of recovery strategy options and communications network recovery options
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Risk Reduction Design and Architecture
When customers decide which of the recommendations best suit the needs of their company, implementation of the risk reduction strategies begins and could include:
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- Development of organization-wide continuity policies
- Evaluation of recovery solution vendors and alternatives
- Development of continuity plans for whole departments, technology or data processing disciplines or communications infrastructures
- Development of continuity program training, maintenance and test plans
- Improvements to physical security (building access)
- Improvements to operational procedures (better data backup procedures)
- Development of technology recovery plans (hot site, mobile switch)
- Development of technology continuity plans (mirrored technology with fail-over)
- Implementation of business continuity plans (business department plans)
- Other improvements
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Ongoing Customer Support
Support Services cover a complete range of risk evaluation, risk reduction and ongoing support services, include a minor review of the business continuity program at six months, with a status report, and major review of business continuity program annually. Support service include:
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- Business continuity policy review
- Physical threat assessment
- Business impact analysis
- Physical Security assessment
- Assessment of current recovery plans and processes
- Development of organizational recovery strategy options
- Development of communications network recovery strategy options for special case scenarios
- Current plan Review
- Mock disaster exercise
- Staff training
- Testing of project support
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To find out how Consolidated Technologies, Inc. can help you create a plan for Business Continuance and disaster Recovery, please call 1-888-477-4CTI.
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The driving force behind a Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery plan is a fear of business disruption— a disaster. The disruption might cause:
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- Loss of revenue
- Loss of market share
- Loss of customer confidence
- Loss of employee confidence
- Bad publicity
- Regulatory penalties
- A critical deadline being missed
- Loss of life.
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