Business Continuity Planning (BCP) ensures that an organization can continue to operate during and after a disruptive event. Protective Resources helps organizations develop comprehensive plans that address natural disasters, technological failures, and man-made threats — because resilience is a security function, not just an IT checkbox.
Our Approach
- Business Impact Analysis (BIA) — identifying critical business functions, their dependencies, and the real cost of downtime, so recovery priorities reflect operational reality rather than guesswork
- Risk assessment — evaluating the likelihood and consequence of disruptive events specific to your facilities, region, and industry, from hurricanes and utility outages to workplace violence and civil disturbance
- Strategy development — recovery time objectives, alternate site and work-from-anywhere strategies, emergency communications, and continuity of security operations during a crisis
- Plan documentation — clear, usable plans with defined roles, activation criteria, and checklists people can actually follow under stress
- Testing and exercises — tabletop exercises and functional drills that find plan gaps before a real event does
- Plan maintenance — review cycles that keep contact lists, dependencies, and strategies current as your organization changes
The Physical Security Dimension
Most continuity plans are written by IT and overlook the physical questions: How do employees get into the alternate site? What happens to access control and alarm monitoring when the primary facility loses power or connectivity? Who secures a damaged facility against looting and liability exposure? Our security background means these gaps get addressed, not discovered mid-crisis.
BCP engagements are frequently combined with a vulnerability analysis, and are particularly relevant for financial institutions and other organizations with regulatory resilience expectations.