Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Have you ever wondered how your organization would continue working if there was an event that affected the business, like a power outage? Are you confident that all your data is backed up and recoverable? Do you know what you would need to do to restore all your systems and business processes to normal operations if a disaster occurred? What is your cost of system downtime (productivity loss, revenue loss, damage to reputation, long term financial impact, loss of customers)? Are you prepared to handle the media, your stakeholders, and your employees in the event of a business interruption?
Nearly every industry regulatory or governing body in the United States has set minimum criteria for protection and recovery of data that includes disaster recovery and business continuity planning? Are you facing a regulatory audit next this year?
If answering any of these questions makes you uneasy, now may be the time to assess, update, or build your disaster recovery plan (DRP) and business continuity plan (BCP).
Most organizations will not experience the direct effect of catastrophic events, but lesser disasters happen every day, and the impact can still be substantial, because the interruption of service delivery is costly from both a human and a financial perspective. So while disasters cannot be entirely prevented, the effects of a disaster event can be mitigated; therefore, it is critical to prepare for a disaster before it occurs.
Our continuity team’s focus is helping clients with the protection of data and other organizational assets. The Wipfli team consists of internationally certified business continuity professionals that use the best practices of the Disaster Recovery Institute as the benchmark for all our work. In addition, Wipfli can add technical specialists that are certified or trained in specific technologies and disciplines to any continuity team to meet the project requirements.
Wipfli brings a wealth of experience, knowledge, methods, and tools to help develop a customized continuity solution for your organization. Disaster recovery and business continuity planning comes in many shapes and sizes. Finding the approach that makes sense for your organization involves careful planning. Right-sized disaster plans with reasonable expectations are a solid strategy, particularly in today’s financial climate. Wipfli can bring creative solutions and the diligent planning that can help your company achieve the desired results.
Solutions
Expertise developed in our core disciplines enables us to configure solutions that include the following:
- Assess an organization’s need for disaster recovery or business continuity
- Perform a Business Impact Analysis to determine the impact to various business concerns across eight asset categories and six disaster categories
- Develop a Continuity Framework that helps to elaborate a strategy for protecting all critical business assets
- Perform a risk analysis to quantify issues and prioritize financial investments
- Define new or analyze existing recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
- Assess an existing disaster recovery or business continuity plan against industry best practices and recommend areas for improvement
- Develop continuity strategies
- Develop disaster recovery and business continuity procedures
- Build disaster recovery and business continuity plans and schedules
- Develop service level agreements with recovery vendors and service providers
- Design and manage disaster recovery and business continuity testing and drills to verify that the plan works as intended
- Provide disaster recovery and business continuity education and training
- Assist with recovery efforts following a disaster
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