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Business Continuity A matter of survival Session 2 Continuity planning : background and life-cycle

Session 2: Continuity planning - background and life cycle. Learn about the importance of continuity planning, the causes of failures, who might be affected, and top managements' reactions. Understand the ingredients and economics of continuity planning and its life cycle.

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Business Continuity A matter of survival Session 2 Continuity planning : background and life-cycle

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  1. Business ContinuityA matter of survivalSession 2Continuity planning : backgroundand life-cycle

  2. Why important? • Heavy reliance on IT • Pressure to deliver IT services • Increasing range of threats

  3. Continuity planning - objective • “The objective of business continuity planning is to ensure that key business activities are restored and maintained as quickly as possible following any major disaster or failure that affects essential services or facilities”. • A code of practice for Information Security Management, British Standards Institution

  4. What can go wrong? • Causes of business continuity failures include :- • hardware failure (22%) • flood (19%) • power outage (15%) • hurricane (11%) • fire/explosion (8%) • earthquake (6%) • bomb blast (5%) • COMDISCO

  5. Who might be affected? • For government sector computer systems :- • the general public • the government • businesses • law and order/air traffic control/hospitals/etc

  6. Top managements’ reaction? • Too expensive • Disaster unlikely to happen • More important things to do • We will ‘muddle through’ • Unaware of the business risks

  7. The ingredients of continuity planning? People Time Money Business Systems The Environment Corporate Information

  8. The economics • Continuity planing costs :- • risk assessment • developing the plan • additional countermeasures • recovery support contracts • training and publicity • testing the plan • maintaining the plan • The plan must relate to business needs

  9. Continuity planning life-cycle Preliminary work Business Impact Review Recovery Options Review Develop the plan Awareness and testing Analyse test results Update the plan

  10. Summary • Importance - reliance on IT; pressures; threats • Objective - restore key business systems within an acceptable timeframe • Contingency versus Continuity • Ingredients - resources; systems; environment; information • Economics - must relate to business needs • Development and maintenance life cycle

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