What is IT Business Continuity Planning?

Unlike disaster recovery, business continuity focuses on making sure your business can run continually, not just get back on its feet after a disaster.

A well-formed IT continuity plan should identify the resources needed to maintain business continuity from an IT perspective. This should include resources such as critical personnel, equipment, financials, standby equipment, legal help, alternate infrastructure, alternate accommodation etc.

What Does an IT Business Continuity Plan Cover?

• Side effects of natural disasters such as a flood
• Accidents such as fire which could damage IT infrastructure and cause death and/or injury
• Sabotage, both internal and external
• Power outages
• A communications failure
• Disruptions in transportation that could prevent employees from attending work
• Security issues that can bring down your network
• Environmental disasters
• Cyber-attacks on your business by hackers

IT Business Continuity Management

If you don’t have the capability or resource available in house to look after IT business continuity, then you’re putting your business at risk.

Here at AGT we can help assess your current plans, identify weakness or areas that need more planning, and put together a plan that is tailored to your business. Everything you need to ensure that your customers don’t notice a thing in the event of a disaster at your end.