BSC provides "Business Continuity" services that include remote-hot-sites, related consulting, and preparation of written and well tested continuity plans. We can help you ensure that your company is well prepared to deal with a disaster if one occurs.

We review your current procedures, and recommend any required changes, or the creation of new ones. We evaluate and monitor all aspects of possible threats, and the potential effects on your Information Technology Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Personnel, Communication Channels, and Public Relations.

We then run the implementation project, that includes the installation of new equipment (at your location and at our hot-site), and training on the new business continuity procedures. After the completion of the project, we continue to monitor and re-evaluate the plan, and conduct drills on a regular basis.

An important part of the project is the establishment of a business continuity plan and a reliable hot-site that can be activated by you at any time. Click here for more information about our Business Continuity Plans.

Our consultants are well versed with both the Security and the Technology aspects of the various threats. They can provide you with valuable advice, so your company is better prepared to deal with any potential disasters that may adversely affect your employees, customers, vendors, infrastructure, and your bottom line.

Our services include the following:

• Risk Analysis Study - we evaluate what are the potential risks and the likelihood that certain disasters will affect your operations.
• Business Impact Study - what will be the impact on your business of the identified risks.
• Configuration of your remote hot-site at our location, using our servers. This hot-site will be active within three hours from the moment that you activate it by calling us.
• Review the current Business Continuity Plan or construct a new one. Included in this plan are proper backup procedures, mirrored servers, an alternative site that can be activated within hours, tele-commuting, and communication lines that are required across the supply chain, including employees, customers and vendors. Find the most cost effective procedures to be implemented and the best course of action to follow in case of a disaster.
• Prepare RFP's to be submitted to vendors for the purchase of new equipment when required, keeping in mind your Return On Investment.
• Review your current Supply Chain and evaluate the effects of disasters on your operations, such as manufacturing, receiving, cash application, shipping, and customer service. Recommendations may include changes to the Supply Chain Management (SCM) system such as increasing safety stock levels, alternate transportation routes and alternative carriers & vendors.
• Conduct Cost Benefit Analysis for big ticket security related items before they are purchased.
• Train your Emergency Response Team.
• Train your management team and all your employees.
• Establish relationships with the local law enforcement authorities in order to increase communication, cooperation, and the frequency of joint drills when appropriate.
• Review the possible impact of a disaster on a JIT (Just In Time) manufacturing environment, and on ocean and air shipments that may be delayed.
• Enhance and modify your IT infrastructure if and when required.
• Design of web based applications that can assist in streamlining operations and communication in case of a disaster.
• Quarterly presentations to upper management of all findings and recommendations in a concise and clear manner.

• We oversee installation and implementation of security related projects, including interactions with sub-contractors.
• For Potential Terrorist Attacks: Preparation of a detailed "Company Anti-Terrorism Procedures Manual". This manual includes all procedures that will help to reduce the risk of, plan for, and properly respond to a terrorist attack. It also includes the proper procedures for evaluating bomb threats, sorting and delivering mail, international travel, procedures for dealing with suspicious mail, response to armed attacks and to hostage situations, and how to communicate threats to employees by using a PA system, PDA's, cell phones, E-mails or Alarms.
• Evaluate the effect on your bottom line of potential disruptions to Electricity, Gas, Water, Phones, LAN's, WAN's, or the Internet.
• Prepare letters and/or E-mails that can be sent to customers and vendors in case of a disaster. This is part of a pre-planned "Information Release Manual", and a PR campaign, so your customers and vendors do not need to count on the media or on rumors for information, and that they continue doing business with you.
• Create a plan to allow for quick accounting of all employees and visitors and their locations in case of a disaster.
• Create an easy-to-use system for your employees, customers or vendors to report suspicious people, activities, or packages.
• Create a plan to ensure that all important and confidential documents are secured and not lost in case of an attack. Evaluate the requirement for scanning certain documents so backups can be kept off-site, and also the requirements to keep paper copies of important documents at the hot-site.
• On-going assessment of risks to your people & infrastructure. Testing of the current procedures and equipment on a regular basis. We will run and evaluate all drills and recommend any proper corrective measures that should be taken. Also, we will test the effectivity of your Company's Command Center.
• You can conduct drills by activating the hot-site at any time.
• Devise a communication plan to allow for a rapid employees' Back-To-Work program, either at the current location, at remote sites, or via tele-commuting.
• All our customer related information such as findings, projects, and recommendations, are strictly confidential.

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