Topic Resilience & Continuity
When the system goes down — what your program already had to have ready.
Business continuity, disaster recovery, and SOC 2 templates for the team that needs to show resilience to regulators, auditors, and bank partners. Designed around the FFIEC Business Continuity Management booklet, drawing on NIST SP 800-34 and ISO 22301, plus the AICPA SOC 2 criteria.
◆ FFIEC BCM · NIST SP 800-34 · ISO 22301 · AICPA SOC 2
◆ What you'll find here
Resilience you can show, not just describe.
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BCP & BIA
Business impact analysis, recovery time objectives, dependency mapping, and the plan structure you need during a real outage. Organized around the FFIEC Business Continuity Management booklet.
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Disaster recovery
Recovery runbooks timed against recovery targets, tabletop exercises, and a log of tests and findings. Draws on NIST SP 800-34 Rev. 1 and the FFIEC IT Examination Handbook.
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SOC 2 readiness
The trust services criteria mapped to working controls. Built for fintechs and SaaS companies preparing for their first SOC 2 audit or maintaining Type II evidence year-round.
◆ Resilience templates
Tools for resilience teams.
BCP, DR, BIA, and SOC 2 templates with Excel workbooks and PDF guides. Buy once, tailor to your program, deploy in days.
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCP/DR) Kit
Set recovery priorities from a business impact analysis, catch vendors that recover slower than the processes they support, run and log tabletop exercises and tests, and report to the board on one page. Excel workbook, guide, tabletop kit, case studies and Word templates.
SOC 2 Compliance Checklist
151 readiness checks cross-referenced to the AICPA Trust Services Criteria, with evidence collection guidance.
Contingency Funding Plan — Banks
Examiner-ready contingency funding plan for chartered banks built to the 2023 Interagency Addendum.
Contingency Funding Plan — Fintechs
Contingency funding plan for sponsor-bank fintechs — FBO reconciliation, runway-based triggers, post-Synapse stress scenarios.
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Resilience articles
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Sources cited · FFIEC · NIST · ISO · AICPA
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Federal banking + SOC 2 ecosystem
◆ Latest analysis
From the journal.
Business Continuity
BCP Change Management: The Product and Vendor Changes That Should Trigger a Mid-Cycle Continuity Review
Your annual BCP review passed board approval in January. Since then you've migrated to a new core system, added a critical vendor, and launched a new product. None of those changes triggered a BCP update. The FFIEC BCM booklet lists changes like those as triggers for updating the program.
Business Continuity
The FFIEC CAT Is Retired. The OCC Just Updated Its Exam Checklist to NIST CSF 2.0. Here's the Govern Function Gap Most Financial Institutions Are Missing.
OCC Bulletin 2026-48 aligned the OCC's Cybersecurity Supervision Work Program to NIST CSF 2.0 — including the new Govern function that didn't exist when most financial institutions built their cybersecurity programs. Here's what examiners are now checking and where programs are falling short.
Business Continuity
The UK Just Put AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Under Direct Financial Regulatory Oversight. Here's What US Financial Services Needs to Build for Cloud Concentration Risk.
On July 13, 2026, the UK's Critical Third Parties regime went live with four cloud hyperscalers designated under direct FCA/PRA oversight. The US interagency TPRM proposed guidance addresses the same concentration risk. Here's what your business continuity and vendor risk programs need to do.
Business Continuity
The OCC's 2026 Cybersecurity Report Changed the Standard. Documenting Controls Isn't Enough Anymore.
The OCC's June 2026 Cybersecurity and Financial System Resilience Report shifts examiner expectations from control documentation to demonstrated, tested capability. Here is what that means for your program.
Business Continuity
Your BCP Is a Document. The FFIEC BCM Booklet Wants a Management Process. Here's What Examiners Are Testing.
The FFIEC Business Continuity Management booklet shifted the examination standard from recovery planning to operational resilience — but most fintechs and community banks still have a document, not a management process. Here are the seven BCM components, the most common examination findings, and what a defensible program actually looks like.
Business Continuity
DORA's ICT Register: Only 40% Filed Before the March Deadline. What Enforcement Looks Like Now.
DORA's ICT third-party register deadline passed on March 31, 2026. Only 40% of required entities submitted on time, and just 6.5% passed all quality checks. Here's what enforcement looks like — and why US fintechs that serve EU clients or provide cloud services can't treat this as someone else's problem.