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.
80+
Resilience articles
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Frameworks · ISO · NIST · FFIEC · AICPA
US
Federal banking + SOC 2 ecosystem
◆ Latest analysis
From the journal.
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
CISA Is Finalizing CIRCIA This Fall. Here's What Financial Services Needs to Build Before the 72-Hour Clock Starts.
There is no Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act final rule yet, and CISA has not given a date. Financial services firms face a new CISA reporting clock on top of existing SEC, NYDFS, and banking agency deadlines. Here is what practitioners need to build now.
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
AWS Went Down in October. Most BCPs Assumed It Wouldn't. Here's How to Fix That.
The October 2025 AWS DNS outage knocked out DynamoDB endpoints across multiple regions. Most financial institution BCPs treat cloud infrastructure as a given, not a dependency to plan around. Here's what FFIEC and DORA actually require — and what cloud-aware recovery planning looks like.
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.