Operational Scenario Analysis

Archer Operational Scenario Analysis follows global regulatory guidance and requirements to assist your organization in implementing a formalized process of Operational Resilience. This starts with an automated approach to identify the criticality of products and services and mapping the assets that support continued delivery of those services. Impact tolerances are defined across a number of categories and metrics, including the maximum tolerable period of disruption. Impact tolerances are then tested against a series of severe, but plausible scenarios, such as cyber events, contagious outbreaks, natural disasters, fraud, and more. For scenarios that fall outside the predefined impact tolerances, preventative and mitigating controls are applied, and Archer's streamlined Issues Management process can be implemented. Additionally, the use case includes an operational resilience self-assessment that can be used to determine the resilience of an organization across five key pillars. It leverages Archer's Integrated Risk Management ecosystem as a foundation for building Operational Resilience. As disruptions can impact your business, customers, and supply chain, Archer helps you evaluate scenarios and improve Operational Resilience across your organizational landscape.

Archer Operational Scenario Analysis is the core use case in the Operational Resilience solution area. The following section describes the prerequisite use cases required for Operational Scenario Analysis, which uses cases will be integrated with the new offering to build a more mature Operational Resilience framework, and the key features and benefits of each solution.

Prerequisite and next use cases

This following diagram shows how this use case fits into the overall Operational Resilience solution area.

Prereq, current, next use cases

Business Impact Analysis

Operational Scenario Analysis

Third Party Risk Management

  • Determine the criticality of and recovery objectives for business processes
  • Provides an automated process for identifying business processes that do not yet have a BIA, or whose BIA needs to be updated

  • Determine the criticality of important business services that should be prioritized for resilience

  • Perform dependency mapping

  • Conduct scenario analysis

  • Supply chain risks (concentrations and single points of failure)

  • Third Party Resilience Assessment

  • Catalog entire supply chain

Issues Management

 

Enterprise and Operational Risk Management

  • Establish your business hierarchy

  • Consolidate and coordinate findings and remediation plans from risk, compliance, audits, and other assessments

  • Manage exceptions with appropriate risk sign-off acceptance

 

  • Integration with Archer Insight to provide robust scenario analysis functionality

  • Metrics to report on key organizational pillar performance

  • Application of preventative and mitigating controls to Operational Scenario Analysis

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