BCP/DRP Assessment

A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a comprehensive framework that focuses on maintaining critical business functions during and after a disruptive event. It addresses organizational aspects including personnel, facilities, communications, and business processes. A Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is a subset of the BCP that specifically focuses on recovering IT systems, applications, and data after a disaster or major outage. While the BCP ensures the organization can continue operating, the DRP ensures the technical infrastructure supporting those operations can be restored.

Our assessments draw on ISO 22301 (Business Continuity Management Systems), NIST SP 800-34 (Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems), the Business Continuity Institute's Good Practice Guidelines and the Disaster Recovery Institute International's Professional Practices. We adapt the scope to your industry, regulatory requirements and maturity, and focus on improvements you can implement rather than formal conformance for its own sake.

Review both plans at least once a year, and whenever your business or IT environment changes significantly. Typical triggers are restructuring, new critical processes, infrastructure or application changes, new key vendors, regulatory changes, and lessons from real incidents or exercises.

The Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the maximum acceptable time to restore a business process after a disruption. The Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is the maximum acceptable data loss, measured in time. Together they drive technology and process decisions. Objectives that are too strict cause unnecessary cost; objectives that are too loose leave critical functions exposed. We set them from a business impact analysis and your technical capabilities.