Resilience Planning

Preparedness, continuity and recovery – tailored planning to keep your organisation running.

Plan. Protect. Continue.

Effective resilience is built before disruption occurs. We design continuity and recovery strategies that protect people, systems and operations, giving organisations clear actions, tested processes and confidence when incidents happen. From structured backup and disaster recovery plans through to workplace recovery and crisis response frameworks, CiContinuity provides control and clarity.

Comprehensive business continuity strategy

Our experts work with you to conduct risk assessments and business impact analyses (BIA) to identify critical functions, dependencies and acceptable downtime thresholds. Based on this, we develop a tailored Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to guide your organisation through any disruption, from minor outages to full-scale disaster scenarios

Work area recovery & alternate operations readiness

If your primary workplace becomes unavailable due to environmental events, power failure, or other incidents, our Work Area Recovery service provides pre-equipped recovery sites across the UK. These include desks, telecoms and secure data access, enabling your staff to continue working with minimal interruption.

Compliance, regulatory readiness & resilience governance

Our planning follows recognised standards for business continuity management, aligning with frameworks such as ISO 22301 and best practice guidelines from the business continuity industry. This helps strengthen regulatory compliance, supplier and stakeholder trust, and operational assurance even under worst-case scenarios

Features

Key Capabilities

Certifications & Competencies

ISO 22301

Business Continuity Management System (BCMS): frameworks for continuity strategy, testing, and recovery readiness

ISO 27001

Information Security Management: ensures that data protection is embedded within continuity planning

Cyber Essentials Plus

Government-backed assurance of cybersecurity posture as part of continuity and crisis readiness

UK Government Supplier

Trusted delivery partner for continuity and resilience services across MoD, NHS, Education and Local Authorities

ADISA-certified processes

Integration with secure asset recovery and data destruction during continuity transitions or disaster response

Experienced BCP Consultants

Specialist business continuity planners and DR engineers with experience across healthcare, government, critical infrastructure and finance

Testimonials

What Our Customers Say

Just want to say thank you for our first of many successful DR test and as this was our first experience with running PIB DR test in partnership with Centerprise International, I must congratulate the whole team for their professional and helpful approach for the DR test experience and for Duncan for the arrangement and the hosting of PIB team. Jas and his technical team, thank you for your assistance and sorting out the issues with Microsoft Office in a very good and timely manner and thank you for paying attention to the small bits such as allocating and naming staff workstations in advance which was a good help.
Hakim Abdulla
IT Manager, Persia International Bank plc

Solutions

Related Services

Disaster Recovery (DRaaS) & Backup (BaaS)

Combine resilience planning with robust backup and recovery solutions, ensuring data protection and rapid restoration of workloads.

IT & Cyber Security Services

Include security as a service, endpoint protection and incident response, reducing the likelihood and impact of cyber disruptions.

Device & User Support / Service Desk

Maintain continuity of user support and device access across transitions — useful during site moves, disasters or large-scale changes.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery?

Business Continuity Planning focuses on maintaining critical services and operations during disruption, while Disaster Recovery concentrates on restoring IT systems, applications and data after an incident.

Resilience Planning covers a wide range of scenarios, including cyber incidents, IT failures, power outages, environmental events and loss of access to buildings or key facilities.

The choice depends on recovery objectives, user numbers, security requirements and operational priorities. These factors are assessed during planning to determine the most appropriate recovery model.

Plans should be reviewed regularly and tested through exercises or simulations to ensure they remain accurate, practical and aligned with organisational changes.

Yes. Resilience Planning addresses people, technology, facilities and communications together, ensuring both IT services and physical workspace continuity are considered.

Yes. Continuity planning is designed to align with existing backup, disaster recovery and IT services, creating a coordinated and consistent approach to resilience.

Yes. Our resilience planning is supported by ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 certified operations, with continuity processes aligned to ISO 22301 best practice. Documentation, testing records and governance artefacts are structured to support audits and regulatory review in public sector and regulated environments.

Talk to our resilience planning experts to build your custom continuity plan today.

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