Cloudskope is the leading provider of business impact analysis and business continuity planning services in the United States and around the world.
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We are known for our thorough, systematic approach to Risk Management and Disaster Recovery, providing rapidly delivered ROI to our customers to fit every budget and business need.
The first step of any effective BCDR Planning is understanding your risks.
Cloudskope provides companies with a highly detailed list of vulnerabilities to their business operations, that allow them to focus on creating actionable, and effective business continuity plans that achieve their BIA, DRP, and BCP objectives.
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From a thorough mapping of your mission-critical workflows, revenue attainment, and core business applications, to a complete inventory of your infrastructure, we are known for our attention to detail.
You can expect to achieve rapid improvements in your disaster planning capability, an honest assessment of your most critical risks, as well as clearly defined plans and playbooks for your business units and customer touchpoints.
Critical Business Operations Inventory
Identify the business processes, systems, and functions that are mission-critical for you to run your business.
Critical Infrastructure Identification
Identify the servers, applications, cloud, and network infrastructure that you must have t run your critical business operations.
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Critical Dependencies Identification
Identify the dependencies between your operations, systems, personnel, and vendors to be able to run your business efficiently.
Business Recovery Playbook
Get a step-by-step playbook, and training on how to recover, restore, and continue your business functions when a disaster is declared.
Strategic Business Risk Planning
Understand exactly how to plan for M&A, risk mitigation, and strategically position your business and costs to match your MBO's.
HOW WE HELP CLIENTS
The modern business is ever-dependent on technology. From your phones to emails, to your CRM systems, to your cloud applications, inventory systems, and databases, everything is interconnected. Simply put, downtime costs revenue and in some cases can cause customer churn.
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Building business resilience, and recoverability is essential to compete and stay competitive and ensure that your customers and employees get the services and products they need in a timely manner.
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Cloudskope's business continuity planning solutions help you identify, prevent, prepare, and plan for the events, and scenarios that may interrupt business functions.
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Working alongside us, you can identify and develop plans and methodologies that help you recover your systems, including risk identification, program development, training, implementation, and testing.
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CLOUDSKOPE BIA BCP:
THE FIRST STEP IN DEVELOPING A BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN IS TO UNDERSTAND YOUR CURRENT RISKS
MAPPING CRITICAL FUNCTIONS
MAPPING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
MAPPING CRITICAL DEPENDENCIES
We help you list and document critical workflows, processes, and functions that enable your business to operate its core functions.
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Web and Brand Presence
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Inventory and Order Processing
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Customer Interactions ( Multi-Channel)
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Critical Communications ( Email, VoIP, Chat)
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Accounting and Finance
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Intellectual Property Safeguards ( Legal)
We help you map not just your mission-critical systems, but also the dependencies that make it all function:
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For example:
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Core Routing and Switching Infrastructure
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Core Web and App Servers
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Core Databases and Data Warehouses
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Single Points of Failure
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Critical Dependencies Mapping
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Critical Vendors and Contacts
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Order of Restoration Matrix
We help you map the relationships between critical systems, vendors, applications, and customers, to ensure you have a plan that covers all aspects of recovery.
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Critical vendors, and services
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Critical services and accounts
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Critical servers and the software that powers them
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Critical supply chain contacts
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Critical contact information for key personnel
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Critical financial approvals for an emergency
CLOUDSKOPE BIA BCP:
SECOND, WE'LL HELP YOU CREATE A COMPLETE DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN SO YOUR BUSINESS
CAN FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION
CREATION OF DISASTER PLAYBOOKS
DISASTER COMMUNICATION RUNBOOKS
CRITICAL VENDOR CONTINGENCY PLANS
EXECUTIVE GUIDANCE AND ADVISORY
We help you create step-by-step disaster plans that allow you to understand the exact things you need to do to stay in business throughout any disaster scenario.
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Creation of resiliency for core services like DNS, Webservers, and IP
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Creation of redundancies in service delivery, including email, web, chat and phones.
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Creation of secure backups and data redundancies in case of any failure of primary systems.
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Creation of the disaster recovery procedure for restoration of services to get you back to the correct RPO and RTO.
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And More..
We help you identify and enable the correct communication protocols for when a disaster strikes so you can inform your employees, vendors and customers of the exact situation in real-time.
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The creation of a SWAT team for disasters
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The enablement of communication timelines, scenarios and procedures for managing the event
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The enablement of procedures and channels for the timely dissemination of information to the correct people to avoid delays, and liability.
We help you map the relationships between critical systems, vendors, applications, and customers, to ensure you have a plan that covers all aspects of recovery in case of a failure of a critical vendor or system
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For example:
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Critical vendors, and services
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Critical services and accounts
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Critical servers and the software that powers them
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Critical supply chain contacts
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Critical contact information for key personnel
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Critical financial approvals for an emergency
We help your company, board and leadership practice and develop strategic plans to plan for the financial, and reputational risk that are associated with managing a brand through a critical crisis or event to ensure a comprehensive protection of brand value, customer and market confidence.
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Executive training for the C-suite on how to handle disasters
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Training for HR and Finance on how to ensure consistent brand messaging and well-being of your employees and staff.
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Communication programs and guidance for making critical decisions under duress when the need arisies
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The analysis and planning to mitigate long-terms and short-terms risk for the company, brand and customers.
3 SIMPLE STEPS WILL GET YOU STARTED ON A BIA & BCP PLAN
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Schedule a Call
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Book a no-obligation discovery call so we can understand your business challenges and goals.
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Get an Audit
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We'll design a strategic roadmap based on your needs and budget, and create a project outline
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Improve your BCP
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Finally, we'll implement our solutions with meticulous detail to deliver a finished product