Business Continuity

While business continuity used to be focused on IT disaster recovery, companies are increasingly realising that they can gain a competitive advantage by improving overall enterprise risk management and increase the resilience of multiple business processes.

Businesses who aren’t identifying and controlling business continuity processes are at risk from environmental, operational and external disasters which could have catastrophic effects on their ongoing operation.

The basis for any business continuity management strategy is centred around a wider enterprise view of risk management which leads them to become increasingly aligned. With this holistic viewpoint, businesses have greater visibility and control over their processes than if simply viewed as silos within the IT security environment.

Understanding risks, the businesses own risk appetite, managing policies, controlling incidents and ongoing monitoring and review through a single system which can link these risks to business objectives enables businesses to gain real business advantages.

So, how can Sword Achiever help?

With Sword Achiever, you have the ability to increase transparency and control over risks, creating a standardised risk management approach and defining clear accountable processes. Policies can be managed throughout the lifecycle from creation to archiving and these can be seen by the right people at the right time with audit trails ensuring compliance.

Any incidents can be recorded and mitigating controls put in place to ensure that these aren’t repeated while the whole process can be monitored and reviewed through drill down reports, heat maps and executive dashboards ensuring continuous improvement.

Benefits include:

Increased visibility and control over enterprise risks with greater accountability
Increased control over policy management throughout the policy’s life cycle and incident and correct controls management
Reduction in time and costs to manage and support business continuity planning
Greater alignment of business continuity with enterprise risk management processes
Increased competitive advantage through improved analysis and business decision making

For more information on how Sword Achiever may be able to help your company improve you competitive advantage by minimising risks and ensuring business continuity before there is negative impact on the bottom line, please contact us.