Business Continuity

HOW SOUND IS YOUR BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN?

When your network goes down, so does your business. Interruptions can have a significant impact on businesses, especially financial services, retailers, or service firms that are driven by a high cost per transaction. Not only can events impact revenues, but they can damage your credibility and reputation.

Disruptions vary in scale and severity and are difficult to plan for, but in today’s volatile world, creating and implementing a business continuity plan is becoming increasingly critical for a number of reasons:

• Business is always on as communications and transactions continually run on networks and through IT systems.
• Industry regulations and guidelines include requirements that can impact your business continuity planning.
• Revenue, productivity, and reputation are on the line if business operations stop.
• Threats are growing and evolving so you need to be vigilant against events that impact your facilities, workforce, or IT infrastructure.

A Good Business Continuity Plan Starts with a Good Partner

The British Standards Institute (BSI) has named Verizon Business a BS 25999 Associate Consultant—the first North American-based global communications provider to be recognized as such. This prestigious recognition acknowledges our successful track record and comprehensive portfolio, and ranks us among the best in the business continuity management arena.

Whether it’s undersea quakes in the Pacific, typhoons in Asia, or hurricanes in America, Verizon Business acts at a moment’s notice to protect and restore its network facilities around the world. Verizon Business’s 16,000 operations and technology employees monitor and maintain—around the clock, seven days a week—a leading global IP network with over 485,000 miles of fiber-optic cable serving 150 countries and 2,700 cities worldwide. Redundancy and diversity are built into the network for added reliability.

We provide the experts and services required to help keep your business functions operating during a crisis. Our business continuity solutions deliver tangible benefits for the global enterprise, including:

• Proactively protect your business reputation and processes
• Help maintain business operations and viability
• Reduce cost impacts and mitigate risk