How to choose a Business Continuity Consultant
Auditing Services
Audit & Gap Analysis
We can complete an audit of your Business Continuity Plans, or any particular area within them, alongside a Gap Analysis to identify any weakness in your plans.
Capability Audits
We can audit your business continuity provision and ensure that your organisation has the capability to meet your plans.
Cyber Gap Analysis
PlanB Consulting will equip your organisation to effectively respond to cyber incidents and manage cyber risk.
ISO 22301 Internal Audit & Gap Analysis
We can carry out an internal audit that is aligned to the ISO22301 Security and Resilience BCMS standard, helping you to prepare for certification, or check your current compliance against the standard.
Maturity Assessments
We can review your present level of business continuity provisions, and audit them against our maturity assessment.
Consultancy Services
Business Continuity as a Service
We help businesses to develop their Business Continuity provision and provide continued support to the organisation to keep their BCMS up to date.
Implementing Business Continuity
PlanB has considerable experience at delivering full business continuity lifecycle, PlanB Consulting can train senior managers to respond to incidents.
Crisis Management Training and Exercises
PlanB Consulting can provide training for senior managers in responding to incidents where the reputation or even the long-term viability of the organisation could be threatened.
Crisis Communications Plans Development
Our Crisis Management Plans create robust frameworks for your organisation to manage any incident and communicate with the right people in the right way.
ISO 22301 Certification
As Business Continuity experts, PlanB Consulting can help your organisation implement ISO 22301 Security and Resilience – Business Continuity Management Systems (BCMS).
Travel Security Assessment and Response
We can help establish travel security response plans to cover incidents ranging from medical emergencies, to natural disasters and even terrorist attacks.
Operational Resilience Development
Organisational Resilience is about ensuring that your organisation will survive disasters, while trying to prevent them from happening in the first place.
Pandemic Planning
PlanB Consulting has considerable experience in preparing organisations for managing incidents and developing response plans for many issues including pandemics.
Exercises
Cyber Exercises
PlanB Consulting offers a wide range of cyber attack response exercises for organisations to explore and practice their incident management plans.
Exercise Programmes
In the Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) it states that: ‘An organisation’s continuity capability cannot be considered reliable or effective until it has been exercised’.
Book – Business Continuity Exercises
PlanB has vast experience in developing and carrying out exercises. These have ranged from desktop exercises and walkthroughs to full multi-agency exercises.
Table Top Exercises
At PlanB Consulting, we work closely with our clients to develop exercises that are tailored to their plans and processes whilst ensuring that the scenario is engaging and thought-provoking.
Team Assessments
SIMEX/Command Post Exercises/Live Exercises
PlanB Consulting offers a wide range of response exercises for organisations to explore and practice their incident management plans.
National Emergency Exercises
Ongoing Support for Exercise programmes
Implementing a 3-5 year exercise programme will enforce the regular testing of plans ensuring that you are equipped to manage any crisis and reinforcing the efficacy of your plans and response teams.
Technology Services
Media and Social Media Incident Simulator
MITS (Media Incident Training Simulator) is PlanB Consulting’s award-winning Social Media Simulator a bespoke training platform that allows users to interact and practice responding to media and social media channels.
Castellan Business Continuity Software
Business Continuity Software: Automate your program and drive improvement.
Training Courses
Cyber Briefings for Senior Managers
BCI Licenced Training
Business Continuity Mentoring and Team Development
PlanB Consulting can help you develop your Business Continuity skills by mentoring this could be for you as an individual or as a team
e-Learning and Video Training
We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver the same high quality of service and learning to all of our customers.
Incident Management Training for Teams
Designed to assist and teach teams the essential skills and techniques required for managing an incident effectively
Incident Management Support Team Training
Administration people play a crucial role in the incident room in order to make sure it is running efficiently and that staff are able to respond and manage an incident
Planning and Running Business Continuity Exercises
The aim of the training is to give Business Continuity Coordinators and other business continuity staff the skills, tools and confidence to plan, run and report their own exercises.
Supply Chain Continuity Management
This course is aimed at teaching people how to understand and mitigate the risks associated with supply chain and outsourced operations.
Promotion of Business Continuity for local authorities
PlanB consulting has developed an innovative way of promoting business continuity to the local community
As Business Continuity Strategy specialists we take care of every aspect of your organisation’s business continuity planning. The output of the business continuity strategy covers a range of services to aid with the preparation for from mitigation, response, and recovery. Please visit our individual services pages to find out more about how we can help you to plan, audit, and exercise your business continuity strategy.