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Responsibilities for various aspects of BCP maintenance are also estab-
lished. Ongoing responsibilities should be defined to ensure appropriate
BCP maintenance. The groups shown in Table 8.1 have specific BCP main-
tenance responsibilities.
8.7 Chapter Summary
In this chapter, we discussed the importance of maintaining a business con-
tinuity plan. The process of maintaining the business continuity plan
includes the use of change control procedures to make updates to the plan
and keep the plan current with BCP data synchronization. You should
assign responsibilities for maintenance of each part of the plan and test all
changes that are made to it. We recommended that you implement a pro-
cess to advise BCP training staff of plan updates/changes and conduct peri-
Table 8.1 Roles and Responsibilities of Recovery Team Participants.
Role Responsibility
Recovery Coordinator Manages BCP, coordinates recovery teams, provides
updates to Executive Management. Should ensure the fol-
lowing on a semi-annual basis:
Schedule and coordinate BCP training and testing
Coordinate BCP document reviews, changes, and
approvals from relevant parties
Ensure BCP is disseminated to all parties concerned
Maintain alternate processing site contracts, mainte-
nance, and service level agreements
Recovery Team Execute documented steps in the BCP to recover downed
systems. Annually, the team should:
Maintain team-specific procedures
Update reference information pertinent to team pro-
cedures
Train and test in relevant BCP sections
Users Identify and ensure key information needed to per-
form job function is stored offsite
Undergo awareness training
Participate in BCP training/testing