Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning

Disruptions happen—cyberattacks, natural disasters, power outages, and human error. Our Business Continuity Planning (BCP) services protect your operations with proactive strategies that minimize downtime, preserve critical data, and speed recovery.

Most organizations don’t think about continuity until it’s too late. At AZ Managed IT, we simplify the planning process by identifying critical operations, mapping dependencies, and building customized recovery playbooks that keep your business running when it matters most.

How We Design for Resilience

• BCP program design: risk assessment, impact analysis, governance, and ownership.
• Resilience by design: redundant infrastructure, cloud replication, tested failover runbooks.
• Response orchestration: roles, notifications, decision trees, and vendor coordination.

Key Features

• Risk assessments & impact analysis — quantify downtime cost, RTO/RPO, and critical paths.
• Custom recovery strategies & documentation — step-by-step playbooks for apps, sites, and teams.
• Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) — cloud replication and one-click failover to a hardened vault.
• Data backups & secure cloud replication — immutable storage, offsite copies, ransomware-safe retention.
• Failover planning & recovery testing — scheduled non-disruptive tests to verify recovery time and integrity.
• Ongoing audits, policy updates, & optimization — quarterly reviews and metric-driven improvements.

Use Cases

• Law firms: protect matter management and file shares from ransomware; verifiable daily offsite backups.
• Medical practices: maintain EMR/EHR availability and HIPAA compliance during outages or cyber events.
• Retail & hospitality: keep POS and inventory platforms online to minimize revenue loss.
• Accounting & finance: avoid data loss during busy tax season with tested recovery for databases and email.
• Construction & engineering: ensure project data, plans, and BIM assets are resilient across sites.

Tools & Technology

We deploy proven platforms to match your environment and budget:

• Microsoft Azure Site Recovery — workload replication and orchestrated failover.
• Veeam — fast backup/restore, immutability, and verified recoverability.
• Synology C2 & Hyper-V Replica — efficient local-to-cloud protection.
• Unitrends — on-prem + cloud DR with automated testing.

Compliance & Testing

• Policy & evidence: audit-ready documentation for HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001.
• Tabletop exercises: simulate disruptions; validate roles, runbooks, and vendor escalation.
• Recovery drills: scheduled app-level or site-level tests with pass/fail metrics and remediation.

Getting Started

1. Discovery workshop: define objectives, SLAs, and risk tolerance.
2. Assessment: inventory systems, dependencies, and current backup/DR posture.
3. Roadmap: prioritized recommendations with timelines and budget.
4. Deployment & testing: implement protections, run initial failover tests, and train staff.
5. Ongoing care: quarterly reviews, exercises, and continuous improvement.