Business Continuity Management

Business continuity management is a critical process that involves the establishment of systems for prevention, recovery and risk management to deal with potential threats to a company. This maintenance tactics is employed by adept business managers to ensure that an organization maintains its usual business operations prior and during any disaster management and recovery process – with minimal disruption. Business Continuity Management includes disaster recovery, business recovery, crisis management, incident management, emergency management and contingency planning.

We recognize that an organization’s resistance to failure is defined by its ability to withstand change, which is why we provide businesses with services such as; business management consulting as well as the application of conditional operations to guarantee their continued operations; bearing in mind, the company’s Business Continuity Plans (BCP): By Performing annual business impact assessments and executing bi-annual plan reviews.

Here in Nivaron, we help to identify the scope of the plan, key business areas, critical function, dependencies between various business areas and functions, and we aid organizations to devise renowned methods to maintain operations. Our methods are in tandem with the general policy of having a robust contingency plan in place to mitigate damages from a theoretical point of view. We understand business continuity and preparedness needs as well as the necessity for establishing business continuity management policy and objectives, in addition to continual improvement based on objective measurements.

We help to evaluate a company’s risk exposures while assessing the potential impacts of various business disruption scenarios. During which we collect information on Recovery assumptions: Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO). To further aid our clients in performing business impact analysis, we collect findings on the supporting production applications, business processes & workflows as well as develop program roadmaps. We educate organizations on the importance of compiling Business Impact Analysis into a master list which can be helpful from a holistic standpoint, as this is also beneficial in identifying pain points throughout the organization.

Additionally, we craft a framework for identifying an organization’s risk of exposure to internal and external threats. To meet the current risk exposure requirements, we essentially assist with updating an organization’s existing BCP and also help to create BCP from scratch. We assess interdependencies - both internally and externally, critical staff - including backups, skill sets, primary and secondary contacts, telecommunications recovery options, communication plans and future endeavors that may impact recovery.

When developing BCPs from scratch, we also provide software to help capture and generate BCP’s while integrating the risk assessment and business impact analysis findings to create an actionable and thorough plan. During the concluding phase, we review these plans with key stakeholders to finalize and distribute. Conducting periodic table top and stimulation exercises to ensure key stakeholders are comfortable with the slated procedures.

At Nivaron, we supply our clients with a software that helps to validate that the recovery times stated in the BCP are within scope and obtainable while meeting the objectives that are stated in the Business Impact Analysis (BIA). Just as we provide software to manage your business continuity program, we ensure that the business continuity plan is tested and maintained on a regular basis.