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Business Continuity

Disasters have a devastating effect on any business. Buchanan’s business continuity solutions significantly reduce your losses with a plan to keep your business safe and secure.

BENEFITS OF A BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN

Recover business operations with minimal interruption
Reduce exposure to risk
Cost effective solution to reduce losses, compliance costs and insurance premiums
Maintain confidence of clients, employees and stakeholders

ENSURE COMPLIANCE

In today’s business environment, there are increasing demands to comply with a growing variety of laws and regulations concerning IT standards and controls. Buchanan’s plan is compliant with the following regulations:

ISO

ISO 17799 Section 14 entitled Business Continuity Management requires testing, maintaining, and reassessing a business continuity plan. ISO 27000 compliance process defines your business environment then implements the controls that can be easily managed to correct any problems.

HIPAA

Data backup, a disaster recovery plan, and an emergency mode operation plan are all required under HIPAA Regulation.

Sarbanes-Oxley

SOX requires systems containing financial data to be backed up periodically and stored in a secure offsite location. It also calls for periodic tests to prove recovery in the event of a disaster.

COSO

The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO) of the Treadway Commission dictates data center operation controls and transaction management controls in order to ensure data integrity and availability.

PCI DSS

PCI DSS data security standards have specific instructions for businesses processing credit card information.

COBIT

Uninterruptible power supplies are required under the Manage Facilities section of ISACA’s COBIT.

THE BUSINESS CONTINUITY SOLUTION

Implement business continuity (BC) quickly and easily with Buchanan Technologies. We will coordinate and develop your plan, communicate to your team and perform annual audits to ensure compliance.

EDUCATION

Educating your team to utilize your BC plan is important. Buchanan will organize and educate your staff to be prepared for a disaster. Buchanan offers continual education following annual audits to review, change and update your BC plan.

Integration of staff in overall BC plan
Annual staff preparedness training
Annual image updates
Annual audit

BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN

Buchanan will work with your team to build a comprehensive plan to ensure your business will continue to operate if a disaster occurs. The plan includes:

Business Impact Analysis
Communication Strategy
Backup/Recovery Strategy
Disaster Recovery Organization and Emergency Procedures
Plan Administration
Annual testing

BUSINESS CONTINUITY CENTER

Our BC facilities have the infrastructure and amenities in place to support your office productivity. In addition to office space and equipment, we also provide robust and redundant network connectivity.

RELIABLE DATA CENTER

Buchanan offers data center solutions through Cyrus One. Cyrus One is a tier four data center offering 100% uptime, security, and redundant power and cooling.

High Density/High Availability
Best-in-class Networking Connectivity
Environmental Monitoring
Military-Grade Security Protocol

TECHNOLOGY

Buchanan’s Virtual Desktop Imaging (VDI) allows user desktops to be quickly and securely recovered from an alternate location. With VDI, you can restore any machine, anywhere, anytime.

For more information, please email: info@buchanan.com.