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It’s All About The Plan

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:12:26 +0000

A completed BCP (Business Continuity Plan) cycle results in a formal printed manual available for reference before, during, and after disruptions have occurred. Its purpose is to reduce adverse stakeholder impacts determined by both the disruption’s scope (who and what it affects) and duration (how bad, implications last for hours, months etc). Measureable business impact [...]

Impact and Threat Analysis

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:16:16 +0000

The analysis phase in the development of a BCP manual consists of an impact analysis, threat analysis, and impact scenarios with the resulting BCP plan requirement documentation. Impact analysis (Business Impact Analysis, BIA) An impact analysis results in the differentiation between critical (urgent) and non-critical (non-urgent) organization functions/ activities. A function may be considered critical [...]

Solution Design Implementation and Testing

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:34:58 +0000

Solution design The goal of the solution design phase is to identify the most cost effective disaster recovery solution that meets two main requirements from the impact analysis stage. For IT applications, this is commonly expressed as: The minimum application and application data requirements The time frame in which the minimum application and application data [...]

Document Recovery Requirements

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:30:33 +0000

After the completion of the analysis phase, the business and technical plan requirements are documented in order to commence the implementation phase. A good asset management program can be of great assistance here and allow for quick identification of available and re-allocatable resources. For an office-based, IT intensive business, the plan requirements may cover the [...]

Disaster Recovery Measures

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 07:07:18 +0000

Classification of Disasters Disaster can be classified in two broad categories. Natural disasters- Preventing a natural disaster is very difficult, but it is possible to take precautions to avoid losses. These disasters include flood, fire, earthquake, hurricane, etc Man made disasters- These disasters are major reasons for failure. Human error and intervention may be intentional [...]