Successful business leaders know that a disaster can happen at any time, at any location. They also know that once a disaster happens, it’s too late to prepare. To minimize the risk of loss from potential security breaches, natural disasters, technology and telecommunications failures or man-made catastrophes, firms must plan and prepare thoroughly in advance. They must be ready to not just recover quickly but also to preserve continuity of operations, without any loss of productivity to their employees or service to their customers. Developing an effective business continuity and security plan takes both commitment and expertise.
The Revere Group has pioneered a comprehensive methodology for business continuity and security that combines our expertise with your commitment to create a risk-mitigation strategy that can dramatically reduce the likelihood that a disaster will disrupt your business operations. To withstand disasters and ensure that your company recovers as quickly as possible in accordance with established recovery times and points, The Revere Group Business Continuity and Security Planning methodology has been developed to help clients:
- Respond effectively to emergencies or disruptive events
- Recover from them in a timely manner
- Mitigate the potential for an adverse impact before and after an event
To achieve these goals, our methodology involves three key steps:
- Business Impact Analysis – Revere works with you to determine the organizational value of each business unit or resource as it relates to the functioning of the total organization. We analyze the impact an outage would have on each resource to determine potential for financial loss and to establish recovery time frames.
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation – We define the potential threats and vulnerabilities of a critical outage and recommend provisions for mitigation controls including cost models.
- Contingency Planning – Building on the Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment and Mitigation initiatives, we work with you to develop a comprehensive contingency plan that includes all of the following standard components and many more depending on your unique circumstances:
1. Activation and incident response plans
2. Internal and external communications and notification plans
3. Logistics plans
4. Critical applications and systems recovery procedures
5. Alternate business processes and procedures per business unit
6. Test plans and checklists
7. Procedures for plan updating, distribution, control and review
processes, and drill schedules
Now more than ever, business continuity and security are inextricably linked considering today's omnipresent danger of man-made disasters. In this environment, it is easy to imagine a security breach leading to a disaster declaration and forcing you to invoke a contingency plan. To help our clients limit the effect of security-related exposures and create and maintain the policies, procedures and technologies that ensure business continuity, The Revere Group Business Continuity and Security Planning offering includes the following solutions:
- Security strategy and planning
- Security controls and identity management
- Threat and vulnerability management
- Business impact analysis, risk assessment and mitigation, and threat analysis
- Plan development, audit, assessment and analysis
- Plan maintenance, including task sourcing, testing and training