Your business depends on IT to keep it running. Business continuity planning ensures that natural disasters, cyberattacks, and other unforeseen circumstances will be minimally disruptive.
Having a plan for how you’ll maintain operations if one or more key systems fail not only makes the organization more prepared, but also gives management a deeper understanding of how the business functions. Business continuity planning helps you see exactly how you use the technology you own.
When you understand how you can maintain operational continuity in a variety of circumstances, your overall level of business risk is reduced. The more scenarios you can plan for, the greater your resilience. You’ll need to think about what to do in case of a disaster impacting one or more of your facility locations, and in case of a failure of a single system component as well as multiple simultaneous failures.
Typically, business continuity planning engagements begin with an audit. We’ll assess:
We take the time to understand what degree of business continuity you really require. Which operational processes can be disrupted, and for how long? Then we create a plan to enable you to achieve the continuity you need. We always take your individual risks into consideration. Some plans include managing the total loss of a building in a natural disaster. All evaluate possible failover options for individual hardware components in your IT environment.
I got to know Marc and CNS because he was sent to our Newark operation where in a single visit he identified the problems we were having in our network and fixed everything in a return trip. I was so impressed I invested in his company!
Anton Schiffenhaus
Chairman of the Board
The CNS team was great. They worked with us tirelessly in the most severe situation we have ever faced. CNS uniquely understood the need in our operation having worked many years with boxmakers. We genuinely could not have gotten back on our feet without them.
Laura Boucher
Chief of Staff
It’s not often that your vendors deliver what they promise in the sales process, but CNS has been great. They adhere to the motto, “under promise and over deliver.” Every time we needed them, they were on the spot and stuck with us until the need was met, even when it wasn’t technically their issue to solve.
Steve Olroyd
CIO
