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 prove resilience to regulators, auditors, and bank partners. Aligned with ISO 22301, FFIEC BCM, NIST SP 800-34, and AICPA SOC 2.
◆ ISO 22301 · FFIEC BCM · NIST SP 800-34 · AICPA SOC 2
◆ What you'll find here
Resilience that survives an examiner question.
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BCP & BIA
Business impact analysis, recovery time objectives, dependency mapping, and the BCP plan structure that holds up during a real outage. Aligned with ISO 22301 and FFIEC BCM.
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Disaster recovery
DR runbooks, technology recovery, tabletop exercises, and the test evidence regulators expect. Mapped to NIST SP 800-34 and 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
BCP and DR templates with BIA, recovery procedures, and a standalone tabletop exercise kit.
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.
75+
Resilience articles
4
Frameworks · ISO · NIST · FFIEC · AICPA
US
Federal banking + SOC 2 ecosystem
◆ Latest analysis
From the journal.
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.
Business Continuity
The Integration Requirement Your BCP Is Missing: What FFIEC Examiners Actually Check on Vendor Business Continuity
Collecting your vendor's SOC 2 and test summary isn't FFIEC BCM compliance. Examiners want to see that you've integrated your critical vendors' continuity plans into your own BCP—with evidence of end-to-end testing and notification tracking.
Business Continuity
ISO 22301 Clause 9.3 Management Review: Agenda, Inputs, Decisions, and Evidence
Build an ISO 22301 management review decision pack that maps Clause 9.3 inputs to evidence, decisions, owners, and follow-up.
Business Continuity
Tabletop Exercise Evaluation Rubric: Ratings, Assignments, and Observation Notes
Build a tabletop exercise evaluation rubric with evaluator assignments, evidence-based ratings, observation notes, calibration, and AAR handoff.
Business Continuity
BIA Quality Assurance: Challenge Outliers and Calibrate Scores Across Business Units
Run business impact analysis quality assurance with outlier tests, challenge notes, score calibration, capability checks, and approval evidence.