Learn your company's exposure to a wide range of risks with the business continuity and resiliency self-assessment tool.
How this tool can help
The Business Continuity Self-Assessment Tool is an easy-to-use online Flash®-based tool that can help you identify gaps and areas for improvement in your current continuity and resiliency plan.
System requirements: Flash player, version 7 or higher.
Non-Flash version
If you choose not to download Flash and use the tool, the questions below, adapted from the tool, offer another way for you to begin to assess your risk exposure.
Once you've given some thought to your answers, feel free to call the number on the upper right side of this page. Discussing your answers with our Business Continuity and Resiliency team will help us identify how we can help. In addition, it'll help us choose the appropriate white papers and information to send you.
Please review the questions below from all three categories of the Business Continuity Self-Assessment Tool. We look forward to speaking to you about improving your business resiliency.
Once you've thought of your answers to each of these questions, call or email us at the address in the upper right-hand corner of this page.
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- Business-driven risks- selected tab,
- Data-driven risks
- Event-driven risks
- Prioritizing for restoration
After a disruption, a company's most critical business processes, applications and information assets should be restored first, according to a prioritized restoration plan. How prepared is your company for this kind of risk? How likely is this kind of risk for your company? - Calculating downtime cost
A critical server is down and key business information is not available. Senior management needs to know the cost of downtime. How prepared is your company for this kind of risk? How likely is this kind of risk for your company? - Restoring operations quickly
A surge in demand has overloaded your servers. Service levels must be restored quickly. How prepared is your company for this kind of risk? How likely is this kind of risk for your company? - Expanding secure user access
Your company has a large influx of new employees, due to rapid growth or unexpected merger. Every new employee requires secure access to appropriate processes, applications and data. How prepared is your company for this kind of risk? How likely is this kind of risk for your company? - Complying with regulations
Your company must comply with several new regulations that require you to collect and maintain additional data on your suppliers. How prepared is your company for this kind of risk? How likely is this kind of risk for your company?
Your next step
Gain the insights you'll need to build a strategic approach to resiliency. Download these complimentary IBM white papers:
- Comprehensive business resilience and risk mitigation (285KB)
- Disaster recovery and crisis management (1072KB)
- Remote data protection (148KB)
Gain a competitive advantage by building resiliency into every aspect of your business, with IBM business continuity and resiliency solutions.