Business Continuity Planning

Future-proof your business continuity plan

Make business continuity planning seamless with a feature-rich crisis response platform that checks off all the boxes.

Does your business continuity plan cover cyber threats?

Most businesses have a business continuity plan in place, but did you know only 5% of disruptions are caused by natural disasters like wind, fires, or floods. Most result from human error, IT issues, and cyber attacks. Cyber attacks not only cripple an organization’s ability to operate — they also bring essential systems offline, cause irreparable reputation damage, and expose gaps in your regulatory compliance.

Meeting leadership
mandates

How would you show your board of directors or the C-suite that you have an actionable plan in place to mitigate risk and keep systems online?

Changing compliance requirements

Industry regulations, insurance requirements, compliance, and internal audits. How are you ensuring your business continuity plan is up to date and compliant?

Risk of an
uncoordinated response

You have a plan in place. Do your teams know what to do? Have you defined the many processes, roles, and priorities required to ensure business continuity?

Build a business continuity plan that supports your organization

Make it easy to create a business continuity plan that’s capable of keeping the business going during any crisis. ShadowHQ provides all the tools to carry out a response while providing leadership with the deep insights needed to meet industry regulations, maintain compliance, and demonstrate cyber readiness and planning to insurance providers.

  • Support larger risk management initiatives and keep stakeholders in the loop with detailed reports, logs, and enhanced visibility into incident response.
  • Be confident your business continuity plan mitigates risk and minimizes downtime while ensuring compliance with industry and government regulations.
  • Bridge the gap between internal and external stakeholders with the ability to invite third-party vendors to tabletop exercises and live crises.
  • Define, prioritize, and assign the various steps required to navigate cyber threats, natural disasters, and other crises.
  • Ditch the dusty binders by modernizing your business continuity planning with a simple, all-in-one platform.

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A small investment to lower your risk exposure

Turn your business continuity initiative into actionable steps with a platform that supports both planning and execution.

Create the plan — and follow it

Create, update, and execute your plan — all in one place. ShadowHQ safely stores your plan out-of-band, centralizes your response, and gives you all the tools needed to respond.

Compliance & reporting

Meet leadership mandates and compliance requirements all at once. ShadowHQ provides detailed reports and audit logs to demonstrate compliance and readiness.

Maintain cyber insurance

Position your company to receive the best premiums and coverage. ShadowHQ lets you show insurers you’ve developed a business continuity plan that minimizes their risk exposure.

Make a coordinated response

Ensure your teams know exactly what to do during a crisis. From tabletop exercises to real-world scenarios — ShadowHQ lets you carry out a coordinated response.

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Disaster Readiness Checklist

When an emergency happens, every minute counts. Download the Disaster Readiness Checklist for practical business continuity and incident preparedness tips and an interactive checklist to help you prepare, activate, execute and audit any crisis situation your organization may face.

Incident Preparedness

Incident preparedness

Create an incident response plan that inspires confidence

Give your teams the confidence they need to perform when the stakes are high. Know exactly who does what, what steps they have to take, and what to prioritize when every second counts. 

ShadowHQ puts your teams in full control during any crisis by arming them with a safe and secure environment they need to carry out the plan.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity

Manage your company's risk with business continuity planning

Prepare your company and keep operations online through any disaster scenario with a business continuity plan that keeps key stakeholders engaged and ready to respond.

ShadowHQ’s secure, out-of-band platform makes business continuity planning easy by centralizing all aspects of planning, responding, and training your teams.

Crisis Management

Crisis Management

Maintain control during high stakes crises

Create, train, and support a crisis management team that’s capable of getting your company back to business as usual as quickly as possible. 

ShadowHQ makes it easy for you to arm your crisis management teams with a platform that simplifies crisis collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, sending updates to leadership, and unifies remediation efforts between technical and business teams.

Compliance

Compliance

Keep cybersecurity compliance requirements in check

Stay ahead of your constantly evolving data protection and data privacy compliance requirements by bringing planning and remediation efforts together into one secure, out-of-band platform.

ShadowHQ enables stronger compliance with powerful features designed to protect your organization from potential audits. Our platform includes detailed reports, audit logs for messages and tasks, timestamps, and more.

Cyber Insurance

Cyber Insurance

Meet all the requirements for your cyber insurance policy

Ensure your organization checks all the boxes cyber insurance providers require to secure or retain a cyber insurance policy. 

ShadowHQ enables better risk management by providing organizations with comprehensive auditing capabilities to simplify the claims process, and demonstrate effective cyber readiness and business continuity planning.

Frequently asked questions

How many users can I add to my account?

ShadowHQ is designed to support business continuity, response and crisis management teams. You can start with as many users as needed today, and scale to add an unlimited number of users over time and as your needs grow.

How do I generate a report post-event?

You can generate a report on any incident at the click of a button — simply click the download button from the incident briefing screen and your report will be generated in PDF. This is important when fulfilling post-event compliance and insurance requirements.

Is ShadowHQ designed for event response only?

You can use the platform for more than just event response. Proactively, teams can use ShadowHQ to organize and store planning documents like playbooks, contact lists and vendor information. With tabletop capabilities your team can institute training exercises and drills for maximum event readiness. Reactively, the platform offers a secure environment for threat and event investigations. On an ongoing basis teams can use the platform to ensure alignment to industry best practices and data retention management for insurance and compliance purposes.

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Kind words from great customers

ShadowHQ and its Playbook Manager are invaluable; the platform centralizes critical information, ensuring compliance and rapid deployment capabilities that are crucial for minimizing downtime and mitigating risks effectively. It’s not just a tool — it’s an essential part of our strategy to stay ahead in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Taiga Walker Cyber Threat Analyst III at Arcadia

ShadowHQ is an extremely powerful tool. Speaking from my time as an active cybersecurity practitioner, having policy and playbook templates readily available is a massive time saver. From a market perspective, ShadowHQ is revolutionizing the incident response space.

Ken Buckler Research Director at IT industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

Knowing I have a platform to immediately alert, involve and triage an incident is the equivalent to having the bat signal. Having that capability — as a CSO I can’t put a price tag on that.

CSO An American-based bank

ShadowHQ ensures stakeholders across reliant functions understand what their role is in any given event.

Steve Strout Founder & CEO of XpeedStudio

Great communications app! Helped me easily communicate with my team in an emergency.

VP of IT A technology company

Finally, a product made for me.

CISO An American-based financial institution

ShadowHQ and its Playbook Manager are invaluable; the platform centralizes critical information, ensuring compliance and rapid deployment capabilities that are crucial for minimizing downtime and mitigating risks effectively. It’s not just a tool — it’s an essential part of our strategy to stay ahead in an ever-evolving threat landscape.

Taiga Walker Cyber Threat Analyst III at Arcadia

ShadowHQ is an extremely powerful tool. Speaking from my time as an active cybersecurity practitioner, having policy and playbook templates readily available is a massive time saver. From a market perspective, ShadowHQ is revolutionizing the incident response space.

Ken Buckler Research Director at IT industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

Knowing I have a platform to immediately alert, involve and triage an incident is the equivalent to having the bat signal. Having that capability — as a CSO I can’t put a price tag on that.

CSO An American-based bank

Resources & Insights

Learn the latest insights and trends when it comes to mastering business continuity and response in your organization.

Give your business the plan and tools needed to navigate a crisis

Book a demo and see how ShadowHQ simplifies all aspects of compliance by streamlining business continuity planning across the organization.