Everyone touts their own type of BIA to identify “Critical Services” & “Recovery Objectives”. We offer a BIA process that goes above and beyond - by thoroughly assessing your ability achieve your Recovery Objectives. Our advanced process breaks down your critical interdependencies and assesses your real recoverability. We also help you to prioritize your: Risks, Gaps and Vulnerabilities and then create recommendations to achieve your resiliency goals.

Business Impact Analysis (BIA), and Infrastructure Resiliency Assessment (IRA):

The Smerud Group distinguishes itself by providing expertise and tools proven to make your organization much more resilient in a disaster. Knowing our clients face a myriad of competing priorities, we’ve developed an approach to minimize your employee’s time by concentrating their efforts only on the critical information they need to provide. We also provide a maintenance program using automated update tools in combination with customized ad hoc support as your needs evolve.

Only a select few BC/DR consultancy services can create a standard Enterprise DRP. The Smerud Group distinguishes even further by offering expertise developing several customized "Enterprise DR Plans" which identify/prioritize/schedule the overall recovery of your critical infrastructure, network, security, data, & applications. Our final product is a comprehensive recovery plan with an hour by hour recovery gantt charts - detailing the steps needed to recover each phase of your organization during a catastrophic event.

Enterprise Disaster Recovery Planning (Enterprise DRP):

Our customized DRP/BCP tools lead the industry in format and ease of implementation. Our template starts with the leading BC/DR standards. We then customize it based on our experience conducting real recoveries for organizations like yours. Lastly, we analyze dozens of: government regulations, mandates, international standards, and “Big 4” Accounting audit checklists, to ensure our template comply with ALL need identified. Combining all of this with your organizations information, we create a customized "template" and "rapid build tool" which allows you to create multiple DR Plans from simple questionnaires.

Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) & Business Continuity Plans (BCP)

Studies show that one half of DR Tests fail. The Smerud Group offers extensive experience SUCCESSFULLY testing Recovery and Restoration Plans. From “Orientation Overviews” to “Table Tops” to a “Full Functional” Testing - we have a 97% passing success as determined by our clients internal and external auditors.

Disaster Recovery Testing & Maintenance

…”93% of businesses that lost their data center for 10 days or more filed for bankruptcy within one year.

… companies that suffered a catastrophic data loss… 43% never reopened... Only 6% survived.

“91%... tested their disaster recovery plans … 48% of those tests failed.

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