Business Continuity Preparedness Assessment

Service summary

A focused review of existing continuity arrangements against defined operational needs and disruption scenarios. The assessment examines critical activities, dependencies and evidence supporting the stated recovery priorities.

The service helps management understand preparedness strengths and untested assumptions. It does not design continuity plans or guarantee uninterrupted operations or recovery within a specified time during an actual event.

Key objectives

• Assess continuity arrangement coverage
• Examine recovery assumptions and dependencies
• Evaluate exercise and resource evidence
• Identify preparedness implementation gaps

Methodology

Selected disruption scenarios are used to compare existing continuity plans with dependency information, available resources and previous exercise results.

• Agree critical activities, scenarios, scope and assessment criteria.
• Review business impact information, recovery priorities and existing plans.
• Select dependencies, recovery arrangements and relevant exercise cases.
• Interview activity owners and responsible response personnel.
• Examine resource availability, contact readiness and exercise evidence.
• Evaluate assumptions, unresolved lessons and plan maintenance.
• Report preparedness findings with explicit untested capability limitations.

Key outcomes

References: [G04]

• Continuity preparedness review
• Dependency and recovery evidence gaps
• Exercise follow-through findings
• Qualified readiness conclusions