How to Build a Business Continuity Plan to Minimize Downtime

TierPoint offers business continuity and disaster recovery services to help organizations design, test, and implement Business Continuity Plans (BCPs).

• Main announcement: TierPoint provides business impact analyses (BIA), risk assessments, and end-to-end recovery support including DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service), secure failover, clean recovery environments, and operational runbooks to make BCPs actionable and testable.
• Background and details: The article outlines a 6-step BCP process (BIA and risk assessment; continuity team; recovery strategies; testing; employee training; maintenance), emphasizes RTO/RPO, the 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule, and recommends regular testing and metrics such as MTTR and critical recovery plan review frequency. No monetary values or implementation timelines are provided in the article.