Business Continuity Planning
Continuity is about the business, not just the servers. AS helps you define how critical operations continue while systems are being recovered — and what 'minimum viable operations' looks like.
When you need this
- Ransomware or outage would stop revenue-critical processes
- Manual workarounds have never been defined or tested
- Regulatory or contractual requirement for a BCP
- Key-person dependency on one IT staff member
- Merging or relocating IT infrastructure
What we do
Critical process identification
Which processes must keep running, what they need, and for how long they can run degraded.
Workarounds and alternative operations
Defined manual or alternative procedures for the period before systems return.
Communication plan
Who tells staff, customers, partners and regulators what, and when.
Roles and decision authority
Clear ownership so decisions aren't delayed during an incident.
Alignment with DR
The continuity plan and the IT recovery plan are built to the same objectives.
How it works
- Step 1
Assess
Understand the environment, the risks that matter and what a disruption would actually cost.
- Step 2
Protect
Put the right backups, isolation and safeguards in place — and verify they work.
- Step 3
Recover
When something fails, recover data from the safest, most complete sources first.
- Step 4
Restore
Bring services back in business-priority order on clean, trusted infrastructure.
- Step 5
Validate
Confirm data integrity, application function and that the cause has been dealt with.
- Step 6
Improve
Close the gaps the incident exposed and update the plan.
What affects the outcome
Outcomes are never guaranteed. Every case is assessed on its own condition, and we tell you what is realistic before you commit.
- Whether backups exist, are complete and were verified before the incident
- How isolated backups and snapshots were from the systems that failed
- Documentation of the environment: dependencies, credentials, configurations
- Time since the incident and what has been changed since
- Availability of clean infrastructure to restore onto
Frequently asked questions
Is this only for large organizations?
No. Small businesses are often more exposed because a single system or person is critical. The plan scales to the organization.
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Not sure what you're dealing with?
Describe the situation and we'll tell you what's realistic.