Business Continuity
At Invictus Consulting, our business consulting services will provide your organization business continuity, crisis management, and disaster recovery expertise. The expectations you set to deliver your company’s products and services is what drives your revenue and threatens your reputation. Customers, regulatory, and standard bodies are required as part of their approval or certification process for you to provide evidence of a business continuity program that is sustainable and scalable for your business operations to deliver products and services as promised.
Your business continuity program needs to include those activities to be proactive, respond, and minimize any kind of major or small disruption that stem from major natural disasters, geo-political uncertainty, technical failures, and human resource impacts from work place violence and active shooter to labor strikes and loss of key suppliers. A business continuity program will provide the business leaders the ability to understand your organization operations, how it delivers services and products, and what will disrupt the expected delivery of those services and products. With that knowledge you can plan and prioritize continuity of operations activities and provide evidence to customers, key stakeholders, and interested 3rd parties that your organization promises to deliver can be met.
Business continuity planning covers all aspects of a business operations and is a critical element of risk management. Don’t let the absence of a business continuity program keep you from winning future customer business and having your customers slip away to the competitor. Talk to our experts on how we can help your organization with your business continuity program.
Your business continuity program needs to include those activities to be proactive, respond, and minimize any kind of major or small disruption that stem from major natural disasters, geo-political uncertainty, technical failures, and human resource impacts from work place violence and active shooter to labor strikes and loss of key suppliers. A business continuity program will provide the business leaders the ability to understand your organization operations, how it delivers services and products, and what will disrupt the expected delivery of those services and products. With that knowledge you can plan and prioritize continuity of operations activities and provide evidence to customers, key stakeholders, and interested 3rd parties that your organization promises to deliver can be met.
Business continuity planning covers all aspects of a business operations and is a critical element of risk management. Don’t let the absence of a business continuity program keep you from winning future customer business and having your customers slip away to the competitor. Talk to our experts on how we can help your organization with your business continuity program.
Every day, somewhere in this country, business operations are disrupted by a serious natural hazard event, manmade threat incident, or technology failure. You cannot stop any of these, but your business must prepare plans that can respond to:
Invictus business continuity consulting and service offerings include:
- Safety, accountability, and communications to people
- Resilience and continuity of operations
- Delivery of products and services
- Resumption of business – back to normal
- Our National Preparedness Goal states: “A secure and resilient nation with the capabilities required across the whole community to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk.” These risks include events such as natural disasters, disease pandemics, chemical spills and other manmade hazards, terrorist attacks and cyber-attacks.
- Regulatory (all companies must comply)
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- IRS Procedures 86-19
- Dodd Frank Consumer Credit Protection Act Section 2001 Title X1
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977
- Healthcare HIPAA
- Finance BASEL
- Standards (industry-specific)
- NFPA 1600: Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity/Continuity of Operations Programs
- ISO 22301:2012 Societal security — Business continuity management systems
- Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) Information Technology (IT) Examination Handbook
Invictus business continuity consulting and service offerings include:
- Business Impact Analysis
- All Hazards Threat Assessment
- BC Planning and BC Plans
- Crisis Management Plans and Communications
- Recovery and Resumption Plans (pandemic, fire, flood, loss of power, loss of technology, loss of facility, loss of logistics)
- Procedure and Internal Control Testing
- Information System Continuity Plans and IT DR Plans
- Writing and Project Management
- Employee Training and Awareness
- Exercises
- Mass Emergency Notification
