Business Continuity Planning Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your organization's business continuity capabilities and operational resilience through detailed Business Impact Analysis (BIA), risk assessment, and continuity planning. Our specialized approach combines regulatory compliance requirements with practical business resilience strategies to ensure your organization can maintain critical operations during disruptions and recover effectively from various business interruption scenarios.
In scope
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) for critical processes (12 hours)
- Risk assessment and threat identification (8 hours)
- Current business continuity plan evaluation (6 hours)
- Critical business process mapping and dependencies (10 hours)
- Recovery time and point objectives definition (4 hours)
- Alternative site and workspace planning (6 hours)
- Communication and notification procedures assessment (4 hours)
- Supplier and vendor continuity evaluation (6 hours)
- Regulatory compliance requirements analysis (5 hours)
- Crisis management team structure review (3 hours)
- Business continuity testing methodology development (4 hours)
- Training and awareness program assessment (2 hours)
You receive
- Comprehensive business continuity assessment report (20-25 pages)
- Business Impact Analysis with critical process prioritization
- Risk register with threat scenarios and mitigation strategies
- Current state vs. desired state gap analysis
- Business continuity plan template and framework
- Recovery strategies for critical business functions
- Alternative site recommendations and workspace planning
- Communication and crisis management procedures
- Supplier continuity requirements and alternatives
- Regulatory compliance mapping and requirements
- BCP testing framework and schedule
- Training and awareness program recommendations
- Implementation roadmap with timeline and resource requirements
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential BCP Assessment
$10,800
70 consulting hours and up to 3 stakeholder workshops for 1 site and up to 10 critical processes: BIA, threat/risk assessment, review of the current plan, RTO/RPO definition and a continuity plan template.
- Sites
- 1
- hours
- 70
- sessions
- 3
- 70 consulting hours, up to 3 workshops
- BIA for up to 10 critical processes
- Risk register and gap analysis
- RTO/RPO definitions
- BCP template and implementation roadmap
- — Multi-scenario recovery strategies
- — Testing framework and schedule
- — Supplier continuity evaluation
- — Exercises or simulations
Comprehensive BCP Program
$20,300
130 consulting hours and up to 6 workshops for up to 2 sites and up to 25 critical processes: detailed BIA with dependency mapping, recovery strategies for up to 3 disruption scenarios, regulatory mapping and a BCP testing framework.
- Sites
- 2
- hours
- 130
- sessions
- 6
- 130 consulting hours, up to 6 workshops
- BIA for up to 25 processes with dependency mapping
- Recovery strategies for up to 3 disruption scenarios
- Regulatory compliance mapping
- BCP testing framework and schedule
- — Facilitated crisis simulation exercise
- — Supply chain continuity planning
- — Ongoing program management
Enterprise Continuity Transformation
$36.5K
Advanced business continuity program with multi-site assessment, supply chain continuity planning, crisis simulation exercises, and ongoing program management support
- Sites
- 5
- sessions
- 12
- Objectives
- 2
- vendors
- 15
- — IT disaster recovery implementation
- — Alternate site contracts or costs
- — BCM software licences
Members: engagement coupons from the CISO Marketplace coupon book apply to services. There is no blanket discount.
What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a readiness & governance assessment engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Scoping & framework selection
The standard or regulation, the systems and the business units in scope are fixed.
You see · Your audit or regulatory driver.
02Evidence collection & interviews
Policies, configurations and records reviewed; control owners interviewed.
You see · Documents and time with control owners.
03Gap analysis
Each requirement mapped to current state: met, partial or missing, with the evidence behind it.
You see · A clear gap register.
04Roadmap & evidence plan
Prioritized remediation with owners, and the evidence an auditor will ask for.
You see · A plan you can execute or hand to us.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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