Business Continuance is the strategic and operational framework for examining the way your organization provides its products and services as well asthe implementation of methods to increase your organization’s resilience to the disruption or loss of information.

Structured’s experts can help you leverage your technology investments to protect your business and to create an environment that’s safe from disruption. We use a five-step approach to help you develop your business continuance plans. Those steps are:

1. Analysis — helps to identify critical and non-critical functions, time frames within which you need to resume critical functions, and the business and technical requirements for recovery. We also help you identify potential threats (e.g., earthquakes, fires, power outages, etc.), document the potential impacts of such threats and make a list of your recovery requirements.

2. Solution Design—Helps to identify the most cost-effective business continuance solution, including your minimum application requirements and the time frames in which they must be available. We also help you define ways to minimize potential exposures.

3. Testing and Organization Acceptance—Structured will help test plans and facilitate organizational acceptance. When plans fail or no longer meet expectations, Structured will help modify requirements accordingly.

4. Implementation— When the final plan is in place, documentation is finalized and should be executed in case of a disaster.

5. Maintenance—Business continuity plans must be evaluated periodically to ensure relevance and accuracy. For example, staffing information ,client information, vendors and contacts must all be updated.

Structured’s expertise in IT infrastructure and security can help you design a business continuity plan that aligns your budget with aversion to risk. Structured uses the best available technology to ensure businesses can protect the integrity of critical information.