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 controls mapped to 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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Frameworks · ISO · NIST · FFIEC · AICPA
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Federal banking + SOC 2 ecosystem
◆ Latest analysis
From the journal.
Business Continuity
Power and Telecommunications Resilience: What the 2026 FFIEC BCM Booklet Requires You to Document and Test
The 2026 FFIEC BCM Booklet elevated power and telecommunications resilience from a supporting concern to a standalone examination focus. Here's what examiners now look for in generator testing, telecom redundancy documentation, and alternate site utility independence.
Business Continuity
Your BCP Activation Just Became a Regulatory Notification Trigger: What FCA/PRA PS26/2 Requires by March 2027
The FCA and PRA published PS26/2 in March 2026, establishing a new operational incident reporting regime that hardwires regulatory notification into BCP activation. Financial institutions with UK operations have until March 18, 2027 to comply. Here's what needs to change in your BCP.
Business Continuity
BCP Update Triggers: When FFIEC Requires You to Revise Your Business Continuity Plan Between Annual Reviews
Annual BCP review isn't enough. The FFIEC BCM Handbook and ISO 22301 both identify specific events that require mid-cycle plan updates. Here's the six-trigger framework that keeps your program defensible year-round.
Business Continuity
Third-Party Dependent BCP: What FFIEC BCM and OCC 2023-17 Require You to Verify About Vendor Continuity
Collecting a vendor's BCP and verifying it are not the same thing. FFIEC BCM and the 2023 interagency third-party guidance both require institutions to actively assess critical vendor resilience — and bank examiners know the difference. Here's what the verification standard actually requires.
Business Continuity
Communications Failure BCP: When Your Telecom, Email, and Collaboration Platforms Go Down Simultaneously
AT&T's February 2024 outage lasted 11 hours and disrupted bank branches, fraud callbacks, and employee communications across the US. CrowdStrike's July 2024 update crashed the same Windows infrastructure that Microsoft Teams runs on. Most financial institution BCPs still treat communications as background infrastructure. Here's what your plan is missing.
Business Continuity
When Your Bank Partner Fails: The BCP Scenario Fintechs Keep Skipping Until It's Too Late
The Synapse bankruptcy froze $265 million in fintech customer funds. Most fintech BCPs don't mention the bank partner failing at all. Here's how to plan for the scenario most compliance teams assume will never happen.