BUSINESS CONTINUITY / DISASTER RECOVERY

As your business grows and changes, so must your contingency plans to ensure business-critical functions continue, no matter the situation. Increase business resiliency in the face of a cybersecurity event, improve infrastructure, and reduce overall business risk with a fresh look at Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR).

Organizations must have regularly updated, proactive plans in place to protect their sensitive company, employee, and client data and apps from cyberattacks and data protection from other risks such as natural disasters, hardware and software failures, and service degradation from third parties. The Burwood BC/DR’s capabilities extend beyond typical recoverability, giving you confidence that you can recover from an outage, but also assessing and addressing risks in your environment to prevent outages from various causes in the first place.

Key Burwood BC/DR Benefits

• Business resiliency: Reassess and realign recovery objectives with your business teams to minimize impact, while balancing cost, complexity, and needed outcomes.

• Reduce financial and reputational risks: Minimize financial and reputational risk repercussions associated with cyberattacks and unplanned downtime; potentially make a positive impact on cyber insurance costs.

• Compliance: Meet security and regulatory requirements in your industry.

• Customized solutions: One size does not fit all. Leverage flexible DR options across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud environments.

Burwood’s BC/DR Principles

Burwood’s BC/DR Solution Framework is based on simple principles:

Security and Operational Risk Reduction

Fundamentally, achieving an effective BC/DR solution requires true and measurable operational, security and risk reduction, which is the core guiding principle of our framework.

Business Impact Alignment

IT and “the business” are often at odds on the most pressing applications and data that need to be restored and available and at what time; aligning these needs maps out the solutions available to meet the requirements.

Instrumentation and Automation

Develop a detailed plan of action for restoring business operations, including the often-overlooked people and organizational aspects.  Automating replication and failover strategies for maximum speed and reliability are critical.

Continuous Application and Capability Onboarding

Migrate new applications into your existing DR strategy and develop a strategy to regularly update to meet evolving business needs.

Burwood’s Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery Approach

To ensure you’re increasing resiliency and reducing risk our approach focuses on these elements.

• Review: We begin by understanding where you are, identifying gaps, then creating a roadmap that includes quick wins but also aligns to your business goals – at the right cost

• Establish: Next we’ll collaborate to create new application and capability onboarding processes to ensure the BC/DR solution evolves with business and IT needs

• Continuous: Finally, we’ll initiate a continual optimization mindset – BC/DR is not a once-a-year event; it should be operated as any other production system, and continuously improved and optimized (and tested) as a result

What a BC/DR Strategy Can Do For You

Losing even a few minutes of application availability or data can be catastrophic to your business. Planning for a disaster before it occurs helps you drastically minimize your business impacts when it does.

Burwood Group provides expert-level consulting capabilities in cybersecurity preparedness, BC/DR planning, testing, and cloud integrations scenarios to set your organization up for success during a stressful disaster.

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