Business Continuity
Keeping Your Business Prepared To Continue Operations Even in the Worst Situations
Business continuity plans are a vital element of today’s business environment. They are one of the most effective ways to counteract cybersecurity breaches or catastrophic events. Without an organized plan designed by Upfront Computer Solutions, you risk devastating losses and even closure.
What Is a Business Continuity Plan?
A business continuity plan is a strategic risk management strategy that details the steps you must take to continue critical business functions following an unplanned disruptive event. Comprehensive continuity plans designed by Upfront Computer Solutions address recovery time objectives, asset recovery, employee and business partner management, and safety.
Think of your business continuity plan as a tactical checklist of vital steps your organization must follow. Each step helps ensure the recovery of business processes, management systems, applications, and data. Those involved with your recovery strategies should have clearly defined roles and responsibilities to take prompt and effective action.
Some of the most critical aspects of your continuity plan include:
- Establishing, testing, and implementing policies and strategies to follow when an incident occurs.
- Performing business impact analysis (BIA) to identify your most critical data and formulate recovery time objectives.
- Risk assessing to recognize the wide range of potential threats your organization faces.
- Monitoring the impact of downtime by measuring and testing the effectiveness of your business continuity plan.
- Disaster recovery planning that puts your continuity plan into action to recover critical data and continue essential operations.
Business Continuity Consulting
As your business continuity consulting partner, Upfront Computer Solutions guides you through the steps of building your business continuity plan. Our consulting services include creating new or auditing existing continuity and crisis management plans and performing BIA and risk assessments.
Business Continuity Management
Once your plan is formulated, Upfront Computer Solutions’s business continuity management (BCM) helps remove the confusion and complexities of executing your plan. For over 20 years, we’ve used our experience and expertise to help our clients build, implement, and carry out business-saving continuity plans.
What Are the Risks of Not Having Business Continuity?
If your organization lacks a cohesive business continuity plan, you’re exposing it to unnecessary risks. Upfront Computer Solutions’s continuity services ensure you’re not susceptible to:
- Business failure
- Financial hardships
- A tarnished reputation within your industry and with customers
- Prolonged downtime and lost productivity
- Falling out of compliance
- Injury or death of staffers at the site of a disaster
Who Benefits From Business Continuity?
Upfront Computer Solutions has helped our clients in many industries realize the benefits of a well-thought-out continuity plan. Small to medium businesses that have overlooked the need for a cohesive plan in the past realize tremendous advantages once they’ve implemented a strategy. Implementing a continuity plan is essential for those that operate in heavily regulated industries, such as:
- Medical
- Financial
- Manufacturing
Free Business Continuity Planning Consultations
Upfront Computer Solutions provides free consultations to learn more about your operations and requirements. We use these meetings to formulate a business continuity plan that provides your organization with a strategic outline to keep your business running. Reach out today to schedule an appointment.
Data Backup Services
You can’t have a successful business continuity plan without accounting for data backup. When it comes to limiting downtime, every minute matters. Planning where, how, and when you’re backing up your critical data is essential to recovering it when you need it most. Upfront Computer Solutions’s data backup services ensure your information is accessible during communications breakdowns and technology failures.