Book description
Business disruption: how will you survive? Fail to plan and your business may fail!
Would your business survive a major incident? What if your key staff were suddenly unavailable? What if your premises were to become uninhabitable? What if your systems and data failed altogether? Would your business ever recover? At what cost?
Business Continuity Management: Choosing to survive shows you how to systematically prepare your business, not only for the unthinkable, but also for smaller incidents which, if left unattended, could well lead to major disasters. A business continuity management (BCM) program is critical for every business today, and this book will enable you to develop and implement yours to maximum effect.
An effective BCM program will have a positive impact on your business, not only enabling you to carry on 'business as usual' in the event of an incident, but also in its day-to-day running. You will realize:
- improved organizational performance
- improved stakeholder confidence (including shareholders, customers, supply chain)
- competitive advantages
- financial savings
- increased profits.
With specific reference to ISO22301, ANSI/ASIS SPC.1-2009, ISO27031 and ISO/IEC 24762, this up-to-date, practical resource will guide you through all the elements of a BCM program, plans and implementations. It covers all the critical elements of your business, from people and premises to technology and facilities management.
"Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Setting up the BCM Program
- Chapter 3: Running the BCM Life Cycle
- Chapter 4: BCM Standards
- Chapter 5: Technology Continuity
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Chapter 6: Technology Continuity Standards
- ISO/IEC 27031 information technology – security techniques – guidelines for information and communication technology readiness for business continuity (IRBC)
- ISO/IEC 24762:2008 information technology – security techniques – guidelines for information and communications technology disaster recovery sites
- Chapter 7: Facilities Management and Physical Security
- Chapter 8: Evacuation Plans
- Chapter 9: People and BCM
- Chapter 10: BCM Software
- Appendix 1: BCM Policy
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Appendix 2: BIA Questionnaire
- Purpose
- Questionnaire contacts
- Terminology
- Understanding your processes – general process information
- Understanding your processes – internal and external dependencies
- Understanding your processes – impacts and criticality
- Identifying RTO, season, and RPO
- Understanding your processes – IT and resource requirements
- Succession planning – identification of human resources
- Assets required during disaster – identification of recovery resources
- Appendix 3: BIA Report
- Appendix 4: Risk Assessment Questionnaire
- Appendix 5: Risk Assessment Report
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Appendix 6: BCM Strategy Report
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Key inputs for developing the business continuity strategy
- Objectives of the business continuity strategy
- Methodology
- Overview of the preferred/recommended business continuity strategy for the organization
- Business continuity strategy – crisis management
- Business continuity strategy – processes
- Business continuity strategy – technology
- Business continuity strategy – data and information
- Business continuity strategy – supplies
- Business continuity strategy – people
- Business continuity strategy – facilities and premises
- Business continuity strategy – business continuity management
- Implementation and ownership
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Appendix 7: BCM Plan
- Scope
- Objective
- Team leader contact details and responsibilities
- Team member details
- Activities to be performed immediately after a disaster
- Activities to be performed during disaster recovery
- Relevant locations
- Processes to be performed if IT systems are available
- Processes to be performed if IT systems are not available
- Resource requirements
- List of documents/manuals to be stored off site
- Contact list
- Vendor list
- Sample press release
- Handling a media interview
- Appendix 8: ITDR Plan
- Appendix 9: Evacuation Plan.
- Appendix 10: Test Plans and Forms
- ITG Resources
Product information
- Title: Business Continuity Management: Choosing to Survive
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2012
- Publisher(s): IT Governance Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849283007
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