Business Continuity Management Services

Businesses now demand real-time access to information and applications around the clock. The pressure to preserve continuous uptime for critical services is intense. Symantec’s comprehensive Business Continuity Management solution identifies risks to your organization’s ability to do business and minimizes the potential business impact of these threats in several ways:

• Building resilience through proactive preparation

• Creating the capability to respond quickly to emergencies

• Improving operational policies, processes, and technologies

Challenges

You need to be able to trust that your business can operate without interruption—that orders can be processed and products shipped. Clearly, the cost of downtime can be devastating. Studies show that after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake and the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York, 70 percent of firms who could not access their data within three to five days went bankrupt.

Yet, business executives must be concerned about more than just ensuring systems, applications, and information are available on demand. You need a business continuity program that covers personnel, facilities, and value-creating activities—one that can be relied upon to minimize downtime and legal exposures, while protecting revenues, brand, and customer relationships.

Solutions

Symantec Consulting Services has extensive real-world experience creating comprehensive business continuity solutions. Our consultants can help your enterprise: identify the risks to your business; assess the potential quantitative and qualitative impacts from an incident; and develop, implement, and exercise business continuity plans that encompass all the key aspects of your business.

If you already have a business continuity plan in place, our consultants can assess your current status against international standards to identify potential areas of risk. The focus is not only on your business requirements, but also on your current technical capabilities and budget considerations. Taking a pragmatic approach, Symantec delivers real-world solutions that are in complete alignment with your company’s ability to implement the plans.

Why Symantec?

Working together with your continuity sponsor, business managers, and IT teams, Symantec can develop and integrate business and IT service continuity plans to meet your overall needs, budget, and technical capabilities—and comply with regulations. With end-to-end business continuity plans in place, you can keep your business moving forward—despite power outages, human errors, system failures, terrorism, and natural disasters.