Business Continuity Consulting and Disaster Recovery for Operational Resilience and DORA Compliance

Our business continuity services are designed to help you establish and maintain a structured approach to operational resilience that fits how your organisation operates in practice. 

We advise on the design and enhancement of business continuity management frameworks, including governance structures, defined responsibilities, and oversight at management level. This ensures that continuity planning is embedded into day-to-day operations rather than treated as a standalone exercise. 

This is not just documentation. It is structured advisory that enables your organisation to respond with clarity when disruption occurs, while remaining aligned with broader operational resilience objectives. 

ICT disaster recovery planning focuses on how systems and data are restored following an incident. This is where disaster recovery consulting and disaster recovery planning become essential. 

We advise on the development and review of recovery procedures, backup strategies, and system restoration processes across your technology environment. The aim is to ensure that critical systems can be recovered within acceptable timeframes, with minimal disruption to business operations. 

Importantly, ICT disaster recovery is aligned with your business continuity framework so that operational and technical responses support each other rather than operate in isolation. 

We advise on the design and enhancement of both business continuity and ICT disaster recovery plans in a way that reflects your organisational structure and risk profile. 

This includes supporting the integration of continuity and recovery planning so there is a clear link between business processes and the systems that support them. The result is a plan that is consistent, practical, and aligned with recognised best practices, while remaining proportionate to your organisation. 

A business impact analysis is the foundation of any effective continuity or recovery framework. It allows you to understand what matters most and what happens if those activities are disrupted. 

We support the development of business impact analyses, including the identification of critical or important functions and the assessment of impacts across financial, operational, and regulatory areas. This includes mapping dependencies such as systems, people, suppliers, and third parties, which often reveal risks that are not immediately visible. 

This work also supports recovery planning and decision-making and can be integrated with broader ICT risk management advisory to ensure continuity and recovery arrangements are aligned with the wider risk framework.

Clear recovery objectives are essential for effective continuity and disaster recovery planning. 

We advise on the definition of recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives based on your operational requirements. These targets guide both business continuity planning and ICT disaster recovery, ensuring alignment across teams and systems. 

Rather than relying on generic benchmarks, we focus on objectives that are realistic, measurable, and aligned with your organisation’s resilience expectations. 

Plans need to be tested to ensure they are effective in practice. Without testing, it is difficult to assess whether assumptions will hold during a real incident. 

We support the development of realistic scenarios that reflect potential disruption events such as cyber incidents, system outages, or operational failures. These scenarios are used to test both business continuity and ICT disaster recovery arrangements. 

This process helps identify gaps, supports continuous improvement, and contributes to overall ICT resilience testing. 

We advise on the design and evaluation of structured resilience and disaster recovery testing programmes. 

This includes guidance on testing methodologies, planning exercises, and reviewing outcomes. We also support ICT resilience testing to assess whether systems, recovery processes, and governance arrangements perform as expected under stress. 

A structured testing programme supports ongoing improvement and demonstrates operational resilience in practice. 

Independent review provides assurance that your continuity and recovery frameworks are effective and aligned with regulatory and internal expectations. 

We support independent reviews, internal audits, and ad hoc assurance engagements across business continuity and ICT disaster recovery frameworks. This includes assessing documentation, governance structures, and testing outcomes. 

For organisations seeking alignment with ISO 22301, we provide advisory support for readiness assessments and certification preparation. 

This includes evaluating your current framework, identifying gaps, and supporting the development of appropriate controls, governance arrangements, and documentation for ISO 22301 readiness. The aim is to ensure that this is integrated into your broader business continuity framework. 

Operational resilience is a key requirement under the Digital Operational Resilience Act, particularly for financial entities and technology providers. 

We support organisations in aligning their business continuity and ICT disaster recovery frameworks with DORA expectations, including governance, ICT risk management, and recovery capabilities. Our approach focuses on ensuring that frameworks can be clearly demonstrated, reviewed, and tested. 

You can explore our DORA compliance services for broader regulatory support. Where relevant, continuity planning may also interact with GDPR compliance, particularly in relation to data availability and protection during incidents. 

Business continuity and disaster recovery are often treated separately, which can create gaps during disruption. 

We support the alignment of continuity and recovery planning across operations, technology, and governance so that responses are coordinated and consistent. This integrated approach strengthens operational resilience and supports more effective decision-making during incidents.