Business Continuity Program Portal

Business Continuity Planning in the Cloud: The Business Continuity Program Portal (BCPP)

To better service the compliance and audit needs of our customers, Lighthouse Computer Services has established a strategic partnership with Compass IT Compliance, LLC. The members of Compass IT Compliance, LLC are highly experienced and certified, and the company’s managing partners were formerly senior consultants within the Lighthouse IT Compliance Group.

Compass IT Compliance's Business Continuity Program Portal (BCPP) is a cloud-based solution that satisfies and simplifies your Business Continuity Planning (BCP) requirements. By offering an online, hosted service, Compass' BCPP provides you with an innovative solution to your BCP needs, while reducing the complexity, costs and time associated with its ongoing management. As a best practice for Business Continuity Planning, migrating your BCP to an off-site hosted platform allows key members of your staff to remotely access the plan 24x7x365 in the event of a disaster or other disruption at your primary business location.

According to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), BCP encompasses much more than just a plan; BCP represents a complete, cyclical, process-oriented program that includes a business impact analysis, a risk assessment, risk management, and risk monitoring and testing, as well as policies and procedures for ongoing maintenance, testing and training.

Managing a comprehensive BCP program is a complex and expensive task. Without a continually updated, enterprise-wide BCP that considers all critical elements of your business, your organization may not be able to resume customer service at an acceptable level in the event of disruption.

The BCPP from Compass IT Compliance, LLC offers many advantages over traditional on-premise BCPs:

	Compass BCPP in the Cloud	Traditional On-Premise BCP
COST OF ENTRY	Low	High
IMPLEMENTATION TIME	Weeks	Months
EASE OF AUDIT	Simple	Complex
STAFF TRAINING NEEDS	Minor	Major
SECURE ONLINE ACCESS TO BCP	Included in subscription	Additional cost
AUDITED TO FFIEC EXAMINERS GUIDELINES	FFIEC–Ready solution	Additional cost and time

THE FFIEC-READY SOLUTION

Compass' cloud-based BCPP not only meets FFIEC requirements, but also provides your organization's Plan Administrator with a much easier and more comprehensive way to manage your ongoing BCP requirements. As opposed to other online solutions, Compass' BCPP is "FFIEC-Ready" and has been audited according to the FFIEC Federal Examiners Guidelines. Compass' BCPP also offers greater ease-of-use, a simplified setup and ongoing maintenance, as all of the control and management functions are within a single, integrated cloud-based portal. As part of the BCPP offering, Compass' Certified IT Auditors provide your staff with an annual training program and an annual audit, both of which are required by the FFIEC.

DELIVERABLES, FEATURES AND BENEFITS OF THE COMPAss BCPP

Compass Business Continuity Program Portal (BCPP) deliverables include:

Migration of your Business Continuity Plan to a hosted BCPP
On-going hosting of your BCPP in a World-Class, SAS70 ll, Tier 1 Datacenter
Regulatory Upgrades
General Client Enhancements
BCP Training to meet annual FFIEC obligations
Annual BCP audits conducted by certified IT Auditors
Annual Business Continuity Program Risk Assessment per the FFIEC Examiners Tier 1 Guidelines

A comprehensive and cost-effective answer to all of your BCP needs, Compass' cloud-based BCPP provides you with the following features and benefits:

A customer-branded home page, and custom pages for each Business Unit to facilitate BCP testing, training, maintenance and emergency disaster-recovery notification
An intuitive interface and user-friendly data population
Ease of use during setup, configuration and use
Search/Find/Replace functionality for fast and efficient updating
Enhanced indexing to facilitate easier navigation
Full Change Control for all plan section changes
Plan changes are "Pending" until full approval
Alerts for the Plan Administrator regarding all plan changes
Automatic maintenance of Change Control history
Full system and user security
Testing, training, maintenance and incident libraries with full control to govern them
Regulatory enhancements, as well as scheduled client-requested enhancements
Automated risk assessments to ensure greater enterprise security
A fully controlled BCP hard-copy distribution

For more information, or to schedule a consultation, please visit Compass IT Compliance, LLC, or call Compass at 888-246-7594.