Services

MBR offers a wide range of disaster recovery and business continuity services from one-off assessments to complete business continuity program development.

 

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) & Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP)

• Provide a notification and call tree list.
• Provide detailed alternate processing procedures.
• Development of minimum resource requirements.
• Designate alternate locations.
• Provide restoration scripts and procedures.
• Develop work from home processes.
• Develop a comprehensive Testing/exercise program.

IT Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)

• Provide detailed alternate processing procedures.
• Development of resource requirements.
• Alternate data center selection
• Provide restoration scripts & procedures. (key stroke recovery)
• Develop a comprehensive testing/exercise program.
• ITIL/ITSM Service Continuity

Business Impact Analysis

• Identify federal and regulatory issues.
• Identify monetary and financial Impacts.
• Evaluate processing/timing.
• Determine minimum resources needed.
• Determine processing and recovery priority.
• Identify other issues uncovered during the analysis.

Risk Assessment

• Evaluate environmental threats such as earthquakes, floods, faults and tornado zones.
• Determine site selection and location.
• Identify and determine external security and perimeter protection.
• Evaluate existing internal password/encryption protection
• Evaluate physical security.
• Look at floor plan/data center layout.
• Evaluate internal security/ID protection.
• Look at personnel screening/background checks.

Audit and Compliance Preparation

• Health check-up on BCP/DR/COOP/ITSCM processes.
• Compliance with FCD 1 & 2, NIST 800-84, ISO 27001, ISO 27002, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.
• Ensure adequate and effective contingency plans have been established to support the prompt recovery.
• Ensure all mandated disaster recovery, business continuity, and security requirements have adequate compliance policies and procedures in place.
• Ensure the optimum contingency arrangements are selected and cost effectively provided.
• Ensure plans are maintained, up-to-date, and securely stored.
• Ensure the recovery plan is periodically tested for its relevance and effectiveness.

Test, Training and Exercise (TT&E)

• Scenario selection or scenarios that could affect a department, location or facility
• Identify key elements of the BCP plan to be tested.
• Coordinate test of alternate facilities including hotsites.
• Organize a walkthrough exercise and help identify the various responsibilities of each team leader.
• Based on MBR experience, identification of strengths and weaknesses of the plan
• Document the process as well as a timeline of the events.
• Create a report on findings and evaluation
• Create a report for senior management
• Determine if criteria is met including identified RTO

Strategy Assessment

• Report based on the current Business Impact Analysis.
• Develop RTO/RPO report by application/data criticality.
• Disaster recovery strategy cost/benefit analysis.
• Make disaster recovery strategy recommendation
• Make disaster recovery site recommendation.

Related resources

• Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
• Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP)
• IT Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
• Business Continuity Management (BCM)
• Risk Assessment (RA)
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Resiliency Assessment Services
• Strategy Design/Implementation
• Internal Recovery Center Design
• Business Continuity Management (BCM)
• Testing, Training & Exercise (TT&E)
• Audit and Compliance Preperation