Cybersecurity
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Program
Rebuilding a lending institution's BCP/DR program from a paper exercise into a tested, regulator-ready capability.
The Problem
The organization had a business continuity plan on file, but it had never been meaningfully tested — recovery time objectives were aspirational, backup infrastructure was unverified, and the plan predated several major system changes.
The Approach
Ran a business impact analysis across every critical function, validated actual recovery capability against stated objectives, and rebuilt the plan around what the infrastructure could genuinely deliver rather than what the document claimed.
The Solution
Stood up a tested DR environment with defined failover procedures, ran a full-scale simulated outage with leadership participation, and established a recurring testing cadence with documented evidence for regulators.
Business Impact
- Recovery time objective cut by more than half following infrastructure changes
- First fully documented, leadership-witnessed DR test in the organization's history
- Regulatory examination cited BCP/DR as a strength rather than a finding