Continuity assessment
Review current plans, recovery needs, critical processes, system dependencies, compliance/data-retention risks, and gaps that could affect operations during a disruptive event.
Business continuity / Assessment and planning
Business Continuity Assessment & Planning
Turn continuity assumptions into a testable recovery plan before disruption hits.
ACS reviews continuity and disaster recovery needs, identifies untested plans and hidden dependencies, defines recovery tiers, and maps backup, Hot-Site, tabletop, simulation, and recovery-role work.
Planning for continuity, disaster recovery, backup, testing, and recovery readiness
How ACS works
1Assess
2Dependencies
3Plan
4Validate
AssessmentContinuity and DR review
PlanningDependency and recovery-role mapping
Current stateTesting and validation priorities
AlignmentBackup and Hot-Site considerations
Dependency mapping
Map the people, systems, software, data, network communications, access paths, credentials, and validation steps needed for recovery execution.
Recovery plan outputs
Document recovery tiers, test scripts, backup needs, Hot-Site preparation items, activation steps, and team responsibilities.
Continuity planning needs named systems, roles, and tests.
Assess continuity and DR needs before an outage, cyber event, or premises disruptionMap dependencies across data, applications, infrastructure, access, people, and vendorsAlign testing, validation goals, backup/recovery planning, and Hot-Site considerations
A strong continuity plan defines what the business needs to recover first, which technical dependencies matter most, how backup and Hot-Site options fit, and what each team needs to do during recovery.
ACS documents the critical processes, dependencies, decision owners, and backup, Hot-Site, tabletop, and restore tests the plan must support.
Business impact and readiness assessmentIdentify critical processes, recovery priorities, interruption scenarios, and gaps across technology and operations.
Dependency and responsibility mapConnect systems, data, access, backup, Hot-Site, personnel, validation, and organization-owned decisions.
Practical continuity planning pathDefine planning priorities, testing cadence, documentation needs, and next-step service recommendations.
The continuity planning gap
01
Continuity plans often look complete until disruption tests them.
Organizations may have backup tools, vendor lists, or response notes, but still lack documented roles, recovery sequence, hidden dependencies, data-retention needs, and decision routes.
02
Business disruption crosses technical and operational teams.
A cyberattack, outage, facility issue, or data loss event can affect technology, finance, operations, communications, leadership, and customer commitments at the same time.
03
Recovery expectations need to be realistic before an incident.
Teams need to understand which systems matter most, what must come back first, and what timing and resource assumptions drive continuity decisions.
04
Testing shows whether the plan works.
ACS provides expert-led continuity planning that reviews current plans, maps dependencies, documents recovery actions, and prepares teams for tabletop exercises, restore testing, and improvement cycles.
Key capabilities
Business impact, dependency, and recovery planning outputs.
Business impact and continuity risk review
Build a Business Impact Analysis — a review of how downtime affects key operations — across critical processes, downtime tolerance, customer impact, revenue risk, compliance/data-retention concerns, interruption scenarios, recovery assumptions, and recovery role assignments.
Critical dependency mapping
Map the systems, applications, data, access paths, vendors, facilities, people, and manual workarounds each critical process needs to keep moving.
Recovery planning outputs
Turn findings into recovery tiers, RTO/RPO planning targets, backup work items, Hot-Site preparation steps, test goals, and an action roadmap.
Validation alignment
Shape tabletop exercises, simulations, test scripts, validation goals, required contacts, success measures, testing cadence, and lessons-learned improvements.
Recovery responsibility model
Define decision roles, escalation paths, contact lists, credentials, encryption keys, software and data decisions, and business validation steps.
Backup and Hot-Site considerations
Connect continuity planning to Redstor backup-and-recovery workflows, air-gapped backup posture, malware-detection considerations, restore testing, automated DR orchestration, warm/hot standby concepts, and alternate recovery-environment preparation.
Common use cases
When expectations need an executable plan.
Prepare for facility or access disruption
Account for facility access, utility loss, water damage, HVAC failure, or other disruption scenarios when planning IT recovery sequence, dependencies, communication paths, and business validation steps.
Include cyber-driven recovery scenarios
Factor ransomware, malware, denial-of-service, sabotage, or data access disruption into a broader continuity and disaster recovery planning model.
Align business and technical recovery sequence
Align leadership expectations with the systems, people, data, network, software, and vendor dependencies needed for recovery decisions.
Make testing more meaningful
Use planning to define what tabletop exercises, restore testing, restore checks, and recovery validation should show leadership.
Next step
Need a continuity plan your business can explain and test?
ACS reviews current continuity plans, maps recovery dependencies and compliance/data-retention risks, assigns recovery roles, and documents backup, Hot-Site, tabletop, testing, and recovery-planning work.
Continuity and DR reviewDependency and recovery-role mappingTesting and validation planning
