Business Continuity Planning (BCP) identifies and prepares your company for any unexpected event such as Natural Disasters (floods, earthquakes, epidemics…), Man-Made Hazards whether accidental (power outage, communications failure, fire, water leaks…) and/or intentional (terrorist attack, cyber-crime, virus outbreak, sabotage…) that may prevent your business from running smoothly. Industry research has shown that there are well over 200 events that can cause a disaster.
Therefore, we define disaster as any event that causes inaccessibility or inoperability to your technology, business functions or facility, and possibly permanently. BCP aims to improve company’s resilience by reacting effectively to any disaster within its Maximum Tolerable Outage (MTO). It covers every aspect of your organization, and highlights the potential business impacts that menace the delivery of your service to make sure the business can function during an emergency situation and to recover the business after the disaster has occurred.
By definition, BCP is a holistic process that includes the actions to be taken, resources required, and procedures to be followed to ensure the continued availability of essential (mission-critical) services, programs, and operations in the event of unexpected interruption (disaster).
Many organizations fail to develop a Business Continuity Planning and leave themselves vulnerable in the event of a disaster. The below listed challenges are pressuring companies to implement BCP:
- Customers nowadays expect to be always rapidly served no matter what the situation is.
- Employees expect both their lives and salaries to be secured.
- Investors expect from the company to remain operational despite any disaster.
- Suppliers expect to receive their payments and service orders uninterruptedly.
- Regulatory bodies expect their requirements to be met and respected.
Our partnership with leading Business Continuity Management firms in Europe and U.S. has enabled us to put into action plans for companies that are vital at a national and international scale.
Edarat Group and its partners’ consultants will identify your critical business activities and functions, develop a plan, train your staff and provide you with ongoing maintenance. Our BCP methodologies are based upon years of experience in both medium and large IT environments. The process starts with a Risk Assessment (RA) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) followed by a selection of Business Continuity Strategies including a High Availability Design aligned with the Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), IT Disaster Recovery (ITDR) plans, Work Area Recovery (WAR) plans, Testing and Exercises once plans are defined, Maintenance Policies and Service Level Agreements (SLA).
Finally, Edarat Group and its partners’ consultants are always available for Business Continuity Audits to ensure that your current strategy copes with your business changes and growth. Edarat Group is committed to deliver on-time solution and within budget by combining technical expertise and service quality. Throughout the project implementation and life cycle, Edarat Group will provide your company with the below services:
- PAS 56 & PAS 77 Audit
- Risk Assessment
- Business Impact Analysis
- Organizational Recovery Strategy
- IT Disaster Recovery Strategy
- Crisis Management Organization
- Contingency Planning
- Testing & Exercising
- Maintaining the BCM Lifecycle
- Audit Strategy
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BUSINESS CONTINUITY PROGRAM
STC was seeking Business Continuity Planning to ensure the continued availability of mission critical business services, programs and operations in the event of unexpected interruption or disaster.