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Business Continuity Planning
ByHafiza Abas
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Business Continuity
• Definition:
Business continuity is the activity performed by an organization to ensure that critical business functions will be available to customers, suppliers, regulators, and other entities that must have access to those functions
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Business Continuity Plan
Business continuity plans help you how you will continue to operate once disaster strikes.
They will help you figure out how to get back up and running as quickly as possiblerunning as quickly as possible.
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Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
• Making contingency plans for a business-threatening emergency and continuing the business in the event of a disaster.
• Domain is all about business.• 9/11 incident, East Coast power black-out,
Tsunami.
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Contingency Planning Timeline
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BCP and DRP
• BCP & DRP domains address the preservation of business in the face of major disruptions to normal operations,
• BCP & DRP involve the preparation, testing, and updating of the actions required to protect critical business processes from the effects of major system and network failures.
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BCP
The BCP process includes the following:
Scope and plan initiation Business IMPACT Assessment (BIA) Business continuity plan development
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Business Continuity
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DISASTER DEFINITION
A DISASTER IS “ A SUDDENLY OCCURING OR UNSTOPPABLE DEVELOPING EVENT THAT:
Causes loss of life, suffering, loss of valuables or damage to the environment
Overwhelms local resources or efforts Has a long-term impact on social or natural
life that is always negative in the beginning.”
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DISASTER DEFINITION
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DRP
DRP process includes the following
Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) processes
Testing the disaster recovery plan Disaster recovery procedure
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Business Continuity Planning
Simply put, BCP are created to prevent interruptions to normal business
activity. to protect critical business processes from natural
or man-made failures / disasters and the loss of capital resulting from availability of normal business processes.
as a strategy to minimize the effect of disturbances an to allow for the resumption of business processes.
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BCP
• BCP should look at all critical information-processing areas of a company, among them:
• LANs, WANs and servers• Telecommunications & data communication links• Workstations and workspaces• Applications, s/w & data• Media and record storage• Staff duties and production processes
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Four Prime Elements of BCP
Scope and Plan Initiation Business Impact Assessment Business Continuity Plan Development Plan Approval & Implementation
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Summary
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