Today, businesses face a growing number of threats of disaster. And you face greater potential harm to your company from any single disaster, due to a more and more complex marketplace. Do you know how to protect your business during a disaster or crisis event such as a pandemic, hurricane or earthquake?

Provides an independent review of your disaster response and business continuity program

Delivers an objective assessment of your ability to cope with a crisis such as a pandemic and its unique stresses

Leverages our crisis response team's experience along with industry best practices and government and health agency guidelines

Identifies your potential vulnerabilities

Provides recommended actions to help mitigate risks associated with the identified vulnerabilities

Experienced IBM business continuity and crisis management consultants work with you to help you protect your operations, your customer services, and your brand reputation. There is much more at stake than data and data centers, especially in a disaster or crisis scenario when illness and fatalities are widespread. Many employees, partners and suppliers may be unable to work for extended periods of time and there may be significant disruptions to normal operations.

We'll review and assess your readiness related to human resource planning; proximity to medical services; internal and external communications; supply chain capabilities; IT, network site and facilities infrastructure, security, customer support, and your business policies and operations.

You can choose from two levels of assessment:

• High-level assessment—designed to meet the needs of small and midsized companies
• In-depth assessment—designed to meet the needs of large enterprises and government agencies with more complex environments or multiple critical sites