Business continuity consulting ensures your critical operations, data platforms, and AI infrastructure survive disruptions like outages, cyberattacks, or compliance events.
Service overview
We design and test business continuity plans (BCPs) tailored for data-intensive organizations—pension funds, defense contractors, and cloud platforms. Our approach maps business capabilities to recovery targets (RTO/RPO), prioritizing data pipelines, air-gapped systems, and regulated workloads like Solvency II.
Core offerings
Risk assessment and BIA
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) identifying critical processes, dependencies, and single points of failure.
- Threat modeling for cyber, natural disasters, vendor failures, and supply chain risks.
- RTO/RPO targets tiered by capability (e.g., Tier 1: <4h recovery for core analytics).
BCP/DR strategy and architecture
- Multi-region/multi-cloud DR designs (e.g., Databricks workspaces, Azure failover, AWS pilot light).
- Data resilience patterns: cross-region replication (Delta Lake snapshots), backups (immutable storage), and failover automation.
- Hybrid/air-gapped continuity for secure pipelines (image processing, battlefield systems).
Plan development and documentation
- Tailored recovery playbooks with runbooks, contact trees, and escalation paths.
- Integration with ITIL/COBIT for data platforms (e.g., Unity Catalog failover, pipeline resumption).
- Crisis communication templates and executive dashboards.
Testing and exercises
- Tabletop simulations, component tests, and full-scale failover drills.
- Post-exercise reports with gaps, remediation plans, and maturity scores.
- Ongoing testing cadence (quarterly for Tier 1, annual for others).
Compliance and audit support
- Mapping to ISO 22301, NIST 800-53, DORA, and sector regs (Solvency II, defense standards).
- Audit-ready artifacts: risk registers, test results, and certification prep.
- Third-party vendor risk assessments for cloud providers and tools.
Engagement model
| Phase | Duration | Key deliverables |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment | 2-3 weeks | BIA report, risk heatmap, capability tiers |
| Design | 3-4 weeks | DR architecture, recovery strategies, RTO/RPO matrix |
| Build | 4-6 weeks | Playbooks, automation scripts, initial test |
| Test & Optimize | 2-4 weeks | Exercise report, finalized plans, training |