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Physical & Environmental Risk
Floods, fire, and power loss don't just damage buildings — they take systems and data offline. We help you understand and govern the physical risks to your IT, and plan for continuity.
What it is, and why it matters.
Not every threat to your digital resilience is a cyberattack. Floods, fire, extended power outages, cooling failures, and other physical or environmental events can take IT systems and data offline just as effectively as an attacker. We help you see where your IT depends on physical infrastructure — your own or your providers' — and govern that risk: what's critical, what happens if it's lost, and what resilience and recovery arrangements are actually in place. (We focus on the IT and data dimension; broader business-continuity planning connects here as your resilience program matures.)
Who it affects.
Any organisation whose operations depend on IT systems, data centres, or cloud and hosting — particularly those with on-premises or single-site infrastructure, or critical dependencies on a single facility or region.
Sits under:
Risk
Physical & Environmental Risk within your managed office.
Sits under Risk, connected to Architecture & Transformation (infrastructure design) and a natural bridge to broader operational/corporate resilience and business continuity (ISO 22301) as that scope opens up. Managed as part of your program.
How we help.
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Dependency & impact mapping
Which IT services rely on which physical infrastructure.
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Availability & continuity assessment
The risk to keeping systems and data online.
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Resilience & recovery governance
Governing the arrangements that get you back up.
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Provider requirements
Resilience requirements for data-centre and cloud providers.
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Orchestrated recovery
Technical recovery capabilities delivered via partners.
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