Assurity River Group Fact Sheet
The Company
Assurity River Group is a leading consulting firm that provides business
continuity and information security assessments, planning and program
management to keep clients’business assets and operations secure,
available and recoverable. Founded in 2003, the firm helps clients meet
their unique recovery objectives by developing sound security and business
continuity strategies and ensuring programs stay current with business
and regulatory changes.
The Market
Customer-centric organizations that handle private information, such as
financial, healthcare and professional service firms, face rising pressure
to secure their data. In addition, increased regulation is forcing many
firms to develop comprehensive risk management programs to ensure that
business assets and operations are secure, available and recoverable.
Agencies such as the FDIC, NCUA, and OTC, along with regulations like
HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, are creating strong market demand for:
- Conducting security and risk assessments;
- Developing security and BC strategies and plans;
- Updating out-of-date BC or disaster recovery plans;
- Testing plans to prove their effectiveness and increase internal awareness/preparation; and
- Managing ongoing security and BC programs.
Business continuity programs require tools, people, training, expertise and governance—an expensive proposition. Outsourcing them can leverage economies of scale to deliver better results at a lower cost.
Services
Assurity River’s comprehensive risk management services constantly
ensure that business assets and operations are secure, available and recoverable
for an acceptable level of uninterrupted service. Assurity River lowers
the cost of administering security and BC programs and improves preparedness
by eliminating hardware, software, and employee costs, as well as keeping
plans actionable and in synch with changing business requirements. Certified
by the Disaster Recovery Institute, Assurity River consultants have extensive
experience managing complex data center environments and uncovering and
fixing security and recoverability vulnerabilities. Assurity River services
include:
- Comprehensive business continuity planning services, including business impact analysis (BIA), risk assessment, strategy and selection, and DR/BC plan development;
- Testing/exercise and assessment services;
- A Web Portal that hosts BC/DR and security plans securely and off-site, so clients can access them anytime from anywhere via the Internet—a low-cost way to keep critical information needed for recovery and continuity safe and accessible;
- A “Do-It-Yourself”BC Plan Package that gives companies access to Assurity River’s BC Plan Web Portal, planning templates and coaching to develop their own BC plan;
- Outsourced BC program management to keep plans relevant and actionable;
- Automated emergency notification services;
- Security consulting services, including vulnerability assessments, compliance audits (GLBA/HIPAA), policy development and outsourced security program management;
- 24x7 firewall and intrusion detection monitoring; and
- E-mail security, including SPAM/virus filtering and encryption.
Clients
Assurity River works with more than 100 organizations in the financial
services, healthcare and professional services markets, including:
Financial Institutions
Excel Bank
Highland Bank
Fidelity Bank
InterBank, FSB
Home Federal Savings Bank
Bank Midwest
Voyager Bank
Venture Bank
Private Bank
First Minnetonka City Bank
Washington County Bank
First National Bank of Elk River
AGSTAR
City & County Credit Union
Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union
Endura Financial Federal Credit Union (formerly Honeywell)
Newport News Shipbuilding Employees’Credit Union
Twin City Coops Federal Credit Union
Lake State Federal Credit Union
WinStar Mortgage
Old Republic Title Insurance
RBC Dain Rauscher
Central States Credit Union
CU Companies
Healthcare
Prime Therapeutics
WestHealth
Professional Services
Corporate Benefit Services of America
Faegre & Benson
Lindquist & Vennum
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
Zelle Hofmann Voelbel Mason & Gette
Campbell Mithun Advertising
Business Data Record Services
Berbee Information Networks
Sales Channel
Assurity River markets its products to clients nationwide through its own
direct sales force as well as through key business partnerships.
Headquarters
Minneapolis, MN
Executive Management
Jeff Olejnik, President
Mr. Olejnik has 15-plus years of business development experience in IT
services and an extensive background in developing IT, telecommunications
and security solutions. He is often asked to share his business continuity
and IT security experience by leading industry organizations, such as the
Minnesota Bankers Association (MBA), the Minnesota Legal Administrators
Association (MLAA) and the Minnesota Security Board.
Prior to founding Assurity River, Mr. Olejnik was vice president of sales and marketing for a leading IT consulting/management service provider, where he was responsible for developing managed network services and security. He is a Disaster Recovery Institute-certified business continuity planner (CBCP) and an active member of the Business Continuity Planners Association of Minnesota.
Susan Judge, COO
Ms. Judge has extensive business and technical expertise in developing
high availability solutions and response and recovery strategies. Leveraging
her internal IT management and technical consulting experience, she has
exclusively focused on BC/DR for several years. She was previously a
member of the disaster recovery team of a Fortune 100 financial services
company and managed a network operations center that was responsible
for managing thousands of global IT assets.
In addition to being a Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), she holds certifications from IT Service Management (ITIL), Microsoft (MCP), Novell (CNE), Citrix (CCA) and Unicenter Engineer (CUE). She serves on the board of directors of the Business Continuity Planners Association and is currently enrolled in the MBA program at St. Thomas University.
Media Contact
Jennifer Schwegman, KC Associates
jennifer@kc-associates.com
952.233.0346
