Continuity Assurance Services

“Business continuity planning is an essential function to ensure survivability of an organization. Planning for unforeseen circumstance is difficult to do and can be overwhelming when trying to factor all the threats that can affect a company.”

Talisen provides business continuity and disaster recovery services to help your company assess exposure, develop mitigation strategies, test continuity and recovery plans, as well as prepare you to respond to events that may threaten a companies ability to deliver good or services. The Continuity Assurance program is a proven repeatable approach that helps companies effectively implement and manage their business continuity and disaster recovery efforts.



Establishing an effective oversight program and understanding your business processes, potential threats and requirements for continuity, will get you going down the right road to business resiliency.

– Program Governance is where it all starts. It defines the roles, responsibilities and scope of your company’s Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) program. Talisen offers a quick analysis of current program practices and oversight to help your company establish or improve its resiliency framework. Our approach uses both Talisen defined processes and industry best practices to ensure consistency and a methodical program approach.

– Talisen can provide a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) that quantifies processes and their relative importance to an organization, identifies key dependencies that support those processes as well as what resiliency has been built into the process. Based on the needs of your organization, we can manage and conduct the BIA process or train your staff to conduct the analysis. The BIA uses proven methods with quantifiable results and measures, helps you understand threat Indicators as well as the relative ability of your company to respond to disruptive events.

Continuity and Recovery focuses on key processes and dependencies of your organization to help ensure continuous operation or rapid recovery from disruptive or catastrophic events. Planning and validation is essential to truly understand the comprehensiveness of the solutions that have been put in place.

Continuity an Recovery planning is where the rubber meets the road. Talisen works with companies to create business continuity and disaster recovery plans that are both easy to use and effective when responding to events or disasters. The planning approach uses industry best practices to facilitate a straightforward method of data gathering and input, for plans that provide you fast access to the information when you need it most.

– Testing continuity and recovery capability is essential to validate the ability of a department, organization or company to respond to a business disruption. Business continuity and technical recovery testing can be conducted using various methods ranging from scenario based testing to full validations. Talisen has the expertise to help companies plan and develop a wide range of exercises to verify the continuity or recovery plans provide the desired results and...?

The capability your company has for responding to an event can not only save lives, but the company itself.

– People come first. If your company is in need of developing or improving its current life safety program, Talisen can help. Whether it is analyzing your program, improving communications or processes, or integrating the program with other key departments, we have a range of skills to help you address your Life Safety needs.

– Does your company have the ability to spot health risks to your employees by floor, site or campus? Do you have the visibility and alerting in place to respond to health events that may spread through a department or company? Symptom surveillance is a new program that uses absence reporting to identify health trends for your company and alert you to potential problems. Data can be quickly analyzed to determine impact and what type of response may be needed. Talisen can work with your company to establish symptom surveillance capabilities and provide the solutions needed to administer program. – What’s your emergency response like? Is it timely, effective and well managed or is it slow, confusing and disorganized? If it’s the later, you’re not alone. Talisen provides established practices for incident or event response to help your company effectively manage an event or crisis. Whether it’s establishing an Incident Response practice for your company or facilitating validation exercises, we can help your company become better prepared for dealing with disruptive events. – In most cases, once an event ends, processes return to a normal operational state. Depending on the nature of the disruption or disaster, returning to normal operations is not always a seamless experience. If your company is interested in advance restoration service planning, Talisen can provide expertise to partner with the appropriate resources. If your company currently needs restoration services, Talisen can help through our partner recovery services to make the transition from event to normal operations a much smoother experience.

How do you measure the overall progress or compliance of your program? Do you have the ability to see the global resiliency picture that incorporates your key suppliers and partners?

– Do you have key processes that rely on partners or suppliers to fulfill? What happens if that partner is not able to deliver? Business continuity in today’s world extends beyond a companies’ “four walls” and accounts for strategic vendor relations. Talisen provides vendor continuity services to help you understand the potential supplier gaps through a Partner Continuity Analysis. This evaluation provides a partnership approach to identifying and mitigating issues that could affect customer-supplier processes.

– Measuring overall program performance in terms of readiness and response will not only provide valuable information for current resiliency, but reveal program gaps that may require attention in the short term or for the long term health of your company. If you need an effective method to measure overall program maturity and progress we can help implement both processes and tools needed. The rating can be tailored to meet your business type and be as simple or robust as needed depending on the complexity of your business.