Resilience & Continuity
Checks whether the business can continue operating and recover critical services during disruption, outage, cyberattack, disaster, or crisis.
Why it matters to the board
Helps the board understand whether the organization can survive disruption, meet recovery expectations, and protect customers, operations, revenue, and reputation.
The assessments
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ITCA (IT Controls Assessment)
Determines whether the IT control environment is properly designed, implemented, and operating effectively.
Provides a clear baseline of IT control health and identifies gaps that can create operational, cyber, audit, or compliance exposure.
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BCDR Assessment
Determines whether critical business operations and technology services can be recovered within acceptable time and data-loss limits.
Provides assurance that the organization can respond to outages, cyber incidents, disasters, and major operational disruptions.
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Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
Defines what must be recovered first, how quickly, and what resources are required.
Aligns recovery priorities with business value, customer impact, regulatory impact, and financial exposure.
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Cyber Resilience Assessment
Assesses whether the organization can withstand, respond to, and recover from cyberattacks.
Connects cyber risk with business recovery and demonstrates whether critical services can be maintained after an attack.
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Incident Response Assessment
Determines whether the organization can detect, contain, investigate, communicate, and recover from incidents effectively.
Improves response speed, reduces incident impact, and clarifies executive decision-making during cyber events.
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Crisis Management Assessment
Determines whether the organization can lead, decide, and communicate effectively when a disruption escalates beyond routine incident handling.
Gives the board confidence that a severe event will be managed with clear authority, timely decisions, and controlled communication rather than improvisation.
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Continuity & Recovery Strategy Assessment
Determines whether recovery strategies match the recovery priorities and tolerances the business has defined.
Confirms that recovery investment is aligned with business priorities and that stated recovery commitments are actually achievable.
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Plan Development Assessment
Determines whether continuity, recovery, and response plans are complete, current, actionable, and aligned with the agreed strategy and BIA outputs.
Provides assurance that documented plans would work on the day they are needed, not merely satisfy an audit checklist.
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Testing, Exercises & Validation Assessment
Determines whether continuity and recovery capability has been proven through realistic testing rather than assumed from documentation.
Replaces assumed resilience with demonstrated evidence that critical services can be recovered within agreed tolerances.
Discuss Resilience & Continuity scoping
A scoping conversation confirms business units, systems, stakeholders, and objectives before any work begins.