Trifecta Security Assessment: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and Incident Response
Comprehensive assessment covering three critical areas of organizational resilience - business continuity planning, disaster recovery strategies, and incident response capabilities.
In scope
- Business continuity planning review
- Disaster recovery strategy assessment
- Incident response capability evaluation
- Recovery time objective analysis
- Business impact analysis
You receive
- Comprehensive BC/DR/IR report
- Gap analysis findings
- Improvement roadmap
- Policy and procedure templates
- Testing and exercise plans
- Training recommendations
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Small Organization Assessment
$35K
Up to 100 employees and 1 site. Business continuity, disaster recovery and incident response reviewed together: BIA for up to 10 critical functions, RTO/RPO analysis, gap analysis, policy and procedure templates, exercise plan.
- employees
- 100
- Sites
- 1
- BC, DR and IR capability review
- Business impact analysis for up to 10 critical functions
- RTO/RPO analysis
- Gap analysis and improvement roadmap
- Policy templates plus testing and exercise plan
- — Facilitating a tabletop exercise
- — Live recovery testing
- — Writing the full BC/DR/IR plans
- — Additional sites
Medium Organization Assessment
$55K
101-500 employees and up to 3 sites. Same three-area assessment with a BIA for up to 25 critical functions, per-site recovery strategy review, training recommendations by role and an exercise plan covering all three disciplines.
- employees
- 500
- Sites
- 3
- BC, DR and IR capability review across up to 3 sites
- Business impact analysis for up to 25 critical functions
- RTO/RPO analysis per critical system
- Gap analysis and improvement roadmap
- Templates, exercise plans and training recommendations
- — Facilitating tabletop exercises
- — Live recovery or failover testing
- — Writing the full BC/DR/IR plans
- — More than 3 sites
Large Organization Assessment
$85K
More than 500 employees, no fixed headcount cap - scoped at kickoff; up to 10 sites. BIA for up to 50 critical functions across business units, per-site DR review, IR capability review across teams, and an executive-level roadmap.
- Sites
- 10
- BC, DR and IR capability review across business units
- Business impact analysis for up to 50 critical functions
- Per-site disaster recovery strategy review
- Executive roadmap and briefing
- Templates, exercise plans and training recommendations
- — Facilitating tabletop exercises
- — Live recovery or failover testing
- — Writing the full BC/DR/IR plans
- — Crisis management retainer
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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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