Business Continuity Planning is designed to ensure companies can continue to serve their clients when a disaster strikes without warning both during and after it has occurred.
Although universally acknowledged as invaluable, many businesses still do not address the issue effectively.
No longer is the question whether we will need a Business Continuity Plan, but rather how to begin putting one together?
From the beginning, Sentronex has focused primarily on providing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery services for London financials. Sentronex helps many financial businesses establish their Business Continuity or pull their current Disaster Recovery provisions into line with regulations.
Unlike many of our competitors, we combine the understanding of banking and IT specifically for the benefit of financial organisations in the City of London.
We have a long list of clients who can provide reference to our Business Continuity credentials and we’d be more than happy to introduce you to them.
And with increasingly strict regulatory requirements from the Financial Services Authority (FSA), it is no longer acceptable to idly prepare a Business Continuity Plan.
Implemented successfully, a good Business Continuity Plan can prove to be a marketable benefit, rather than an operational hindrance.
Where to begin?
The necessary planning tasks themselves can be challenging, none more so than the building of the plan itself. In the same way that no two trading environments are alike, Sentronex recognise that there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to Business Continuity Planning. We tailor your Business Continuity Planning in a manner that is appropriate for your business to ensure it keeps you trading and protects your investors’ money.
To give you an idea of the approach Sentronex use, detailed below are four crucial areas we consider when piecing together a Business Continuity Plan.
BCP Maintenance
As part of the Business Continuity Plan service, Sentronex also host frequent scheduled meetings in order to review your Business Continuity Plan and to discuss any alterations that may need to be made as your organisation’s IT support requirements change.
This will ensure that if any new requirements have arisen, these are documented and reflected within your Business Continuity Plan. This will also serve as appropriate evidence for regulatory audits conducted by the FSA as well as a reference for your own purposes.
Included in the scheduled meetings, we:
- provide documented minutes
- telephone assistance with BCP updates
- updates and written amendments to BCP
- vendor liaison for BCP purposes
- provide any new industry regulatory requirements
Get in touch with one of our consultants to discuss either an audit of your current plan or the need for implementing a Business Continuity Plan.