Business recovery and continuity plans are often reviewed once a year and then forgotten. That leaves organizations vulnerable to a wider range of threats, including natural disasters, cyberattacks, ransomware, phishing, data breaches, power outages, system failures, supply chain disruptions, insider threats, and even human error.
The Challenge
- DR and BC plans become stale as business and technology changes.
- Business stakeholders are not fully engaged with planning and testing.
- Supply chain and vendor risks are underappreciated.
Why This Is Hard
- Cross-functional dependencies are complex and not fully documented.
- Testing can be costly and disruptive if not scoped properly.
- Leadership attention drifts once a plan is signed off.
The Opportunity
- Reduce downtime risk by treating resilience as a living program.
- Find hidden single points of failure before they become incidents.
- Strengthen technology and vendor resilience.
What Leading Organizations Do Effectively
- Review and test DR and BC plans quarterly with business stakeholder involvement.
- Map vendor criticality and substitute paths for high-risk suppliers.
- Use tabletop exercises to validate assumptions and roles.
- Monitor current and emerging threats and incorporate them into resilience planning.
- Leverage automation for dependency discovery and alerting.
AOTMP’s Perspective
AOTMP recommends a quarterly resilience cadence that includes business owners in scenario planning. Validate all assumptions and refresh critical dependency maps regularly to keep recovery plans credible and executable.
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