BCP Auditing Services

Keep Your Plan Active, Effective and Up to Date

Disaster planning doesn't end when a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is finished. On-going maintenance is a must. As a company expands and evolves, its BCP must be continuously updated to keep pace.

One key component of BCP maintenance is an outside audit. Regular audits of your recovery plan, conducted by an independent BCP consulting specialist, ensure that the plan is being kept current and will work in a disaster.

StoneHenge Partners offers BCP Auditing Services that follow industry-wide best practices customized to fit your specific needs. A BCP audit conducted by StoneHenge Partners can include these tasks:

Set the audit objectives and scope.

Compare the different audit options and methods to determine the approach that best meets your needs.
Understand the essential characteristics of a viable business resumption plan for your company.

Prepare an audit plan. This may include:

Awareness and training
Review of current BCP plan and amendments
Organizational changes
Vital records process
Command Center and recovery site facilities
Maintenance schedule
Contracts, Service Level Agreements or other commitments
Data backups and offsite processes
Suppliers
Active and passive test exercises
Logistics

Audit your BCP's structure, contents, and action sections.

Audit your BCP's documentation control procedures.

Provision for secure backup copies of the plan for emergency use
List of personnel with copies of the plan for updating purposes
Process for maintaining a current list of personnel who have plan copies
Process for ensuring the plan copies are current

Review audit results. Report findings and recommendations to your management.

For more information, or to request a written proposal customized to your organization's needs, please contact StoneHenge Partners.