Risk Management Solution

The foundation of the eLink Advantage™ risk management solution for business continuity is that the system itself is held in a secure location and is inherently a resilient system. All your information held safely in a safe place for you to access instantly.

What if:

- key members of staff were all unavailable at the same time?

- you lost all your paper based business information?

- your building was destroyed - or even just inaccessible?

- your complete IT infrastructure collapsed under virus attack?

Could your organisation cope, would you survive?

Unfortunately, recent events have forced this concern to the top of many peoples’ agendas and deserve attention or it could be caused by a natural disaster…

eLink Advantage™ risk management solution helps you to build your business continuity plans, to structure management policies and actions, helping you to bring all the information together:

• identifying the risks you face

• working our mitigation strategies

• quantifying the impact on the business if the risks materialise

• designing a recovery plan for the critical activities of your business in the short, medium and long term

• training your staff and maintaining your risk profile and recovery plans

Loss of Data – Loss of Corporate Knowledge Base

eLink Advantage™ business management system holds all your corporate information, your corporate knowledge base, in a secure, highly resilient system.

The eLink Advantage hosted solution, the ASP Advantage, is hosted with a partner who has built a mission critical Internet Data Centre to provide world-class hosting for all our customers.

To ensure the fastest and most reliable routing of traffic, the Data Centre has multiple connections to major Internet backbone carriers with OC-12 and Gigabit Ethernet connections using the BGP-4 routing protocol.

The Internet Data Centre is built with N+1 redundancy throughout, including multiple HVAC systems and redundant power. Every month, the backup diesel generators are tested to make sure they are in proper functioning order in case of power grid failure. The Internet Data Centre's physical security is entrusted to 24x7x365 live monitoring, CCTV, and biometric access control system.

In addition to our servers located within the Data Centre, we have commissioned mirrored, redundant servers, which are located in a separate remote geographical location.

This supplementary system can be accessed in the critical intervening period until a copy is created at a new data centre and every entry there is synchronised when the main system comes back on stream.

Loss of Electrical Power and / or Telecommunications Links

Here we offer the simplest possible disaster recovery, whilst it may be inconvenient, your system is available for use at home, an internet café, any WiFi-enabled restaurant or temporary office, provided electrical power is available and internet access is available.

If the SE England Internet loop suffers a calamitous breakage, client staff need to temporarily relocate either to somewhere in the rest of England or to, for example, France, Belgium or Holland.

Corporate Operational Needs

eLink Advantage™ business management system is set up to hold details, policy documents, correspondence and actions for:

• Identified Risks

- Governance

- Operational

- Financial

- External risks

- Compliance with law and regulation

• Asset related risks

• Planned Courses of Action

• Risk Category, between low likelihood + low severity to high likelihood + high severity

• Provides for periodic monitoring and assessment

• Asset Records are provided and can be personalised

The eLink Advantage™ Risk management solution can be personalised quickly and cost-effectively.

The benefits of eLink Advantage™ risk management system are:

• Business survival

• Gaining a competitive advantage over your competitors

• And as a by-product benefit you and your team can access and work with your corporate knowledge base anywhere anytime, leading to improved staff productivity, improved customer relationships and improved corporate profitability