Business Continuity Management

Automate your approach to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, and enable effective crisis management in one solution.

RSA Archer Business Continuity Management provides a centralized, automated approach to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, allowing you to respond swiftly in crisis situations to protect your ongoing operations. This web-based solution combines business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management into a single management system. With RSA Archer, you can assess the criticality of your business processes and supporting technologies, and then develop detailed business continuity and disaster recovery plans, utilizing automated workflow for plan testing and approval. Additionally, you can manage plan execution and communication in crisis situations to minimize harm to your employees, customers, reputation and business operations.

  • Centrally Manage Your Business Continuity Program

    Consolidate business continuity and disaster recovery plans, business processes, impact analyses and recovery procedures to allow efficient governance of your business continuity program. Also ensure the consistency of plan documentation across your organization using fully configurable web-based forms, and improve your plans over time through periodic reviews triggered by date-driven notifications.

  • Perform Business Impact and Environmental Risk Analyses

    Measure the value of business processes, and prioritize them based on impacts to your revenue, brand image, stakeholder confidence and customer loyalty in the event of process disruption or failure. Additionally assess the probability of environmental threats against your IT infrastructure and aggregate individual BIAs from risk projects, business processes, applications, devices or facilities. Because a single business impact or environmental risk assessment may apply to multiple plans, the solution allows you to complete an analysis once and link it to any number of plans to reduce duplication of effort.

  • Test Your Plans and Facilitate Periodic Reviews

    Test your business continuity and disaster recovery plans to identify process gaps, determine the time it will take to restore your business processes and infrastructure, and ensure that all dependencies have been captured. With RSA Archer Business Continuity Management, you can estimate completion time at the recovery task or procedure level and roll those estimates up to the overall plan to determine the duration for testing and plan execution. The solution also allows you to track testing gaps and remediation efforts through integrated task management capabilities.

  • Track Crisis Events in Real Time

    Report crisis situations that occur anywhere you do business, including natural disasters, workplace violence, product tampering, terrorist attacks, etc. The RSA Archer Business Continuity Management solution allows you to quickly capture the details of a crisis, including the time of occurrence, event location, type and severity. To automate the collection of crisis data, you can also integrate the solution with a call center or emergency notification service using the Data Feed Manager.

  • Rapidly Implement Response Plans

    In the event that a crisis occurs, enable rapid contact with emergency responders through phased notification plans designed for specific business units, departments or facilities. The web-based RSA Archer solution allows efficient access to business continuity and disaster recovery plans no matter where you or your stakeholders reside. The solution also tracks and manages requests for emergency operations assistance requests such as generators, hazardous materials containment or canine rescue teams.

  • Report on Your Business Continuity Program

    Gain an enterprise view of your business continuity program through flexible reporting capabilities. Report in real time on plan testing, gap analyses and remediation efforts, and gain a real-time view of current and historical crises, supporting event analysis and program enhancement. For plan owners who require plan printing in flexible formats, the solution provides mail merge functionality to enable printing to several commercial software applications. For senior managers who require a rollup view of your program, you can also deliver graphical dashboards, enabling them to drill down for more details.

  • Create Once, Use Many

    Significant efficiencies gained through relating individual business impact and environmental risk analyses, recovery strategies, procedures and tasks to multiple business continuity and disaster recovery plans

  • Time and Cost Savings

    Minimized length of process and technology outages, leading to cost reductions for your business, achieved by providing rapid access to recovery strategies, procedures and tasks

  • Best-Practice Approach

    A business continuity program aligned with the BS 25999 standard, NIST Contingency Planning Guide for information Technology Systems and the DHS National Incident Management System (NIMS) framework

  • Stakeholder Confidence

    A sense of trust throughout your organization that effective plans are in place to ensure your ongoing operations

  • Quick Time to Value

    Rapid return on your investment from a solution that you can implement out of the box (using predefined access roles, workflow, reports, dashboards, etc.) or easily tailor to your needs through point-and-click configuration

  • Deployment Flexibility

    The freedom to choose an on-premise or software as a service (SaaS) deployment and to move the solution from one environment to another as your needs change

  • Business Continuity Management Video Demo

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  • Business Continuity Management Data Sheet

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