No security can be 100% fool-proof and not to plan and prepare to ‘fail-Safe’ in a security plan is fraught with grave consequences. It is therefore required of all security solutions to make provisions for containing, managing and recovering at the earliest, whenever there is any breach in the security that affects the operational continuity. Kashi can help the clients in this by advising the client to plan, formulate and put into place fail safe measures, that can keep their business operational under adverse conditions.

Fail- Safe Measures

• Incidence Response Plan
• Crisis Management Plan
• Operational Continuity Plan

Incident Response

Incident responses are the processes that you have put into place to ensure that your institution reacts properly and in an orderly manner to an incident as it occurs. Examples of incident response include:

• Evacuation after a called-in bomb threat.
• Denial of entry to suspicious persons.
• Calling for medical help when a child is injured in your school.

Crisis Management

Any event that can, within a short period of time, grow from an incident that is not being contained, and is likely to harm your institution’s constituents, its facilities, its finances or its reputation can be termed as a crisis.

Crisis Management is the management and coordination of your institution’s responses to an incident that threatens to harm, or has harmed, your institution’s people, structures, ability to operate, valuables and/or reputation. It takes into account your planning and automatic incident response, but must also dynamically deal with situations as they unfold, often in unpredictable ways.

Crisis management is the art of making decisions to head off or mitigate the effects of such an event, often while the event itself is unfolding. This often means making decisions about your institution’s future while you are under stress and while you lack key pieces of information.

The key to being able to manage a crisis is doing as much planning as is practical before a crisis starts in order to best position you and your institution to respond to and mitigate such a situation.

Operational Continuity

Operational continuity plan relates to those steps necessary to restore your institution to normal functioning.

Any organization worth its salt, should proactively prepare for potential incidents and disruptions during the course of its business life cycle, so that it can avoid suspension of critical operations and services, or if operations and services are disrupted, that they resume operations and services as rapidly as required by those who depend on them.