Business Impact Analysis
Business impact analysis (BIA) is a process whereby the disaster recovery team contemplates likely disasters and the impact each would have on the organization. For example, a company that ships goods to retail stores but does not sell directly to the public might be slightly impacted if its web server was down for a day. A company that sells directly to the public both in-store and online would be moderately impacted by such an outage. But a pure e-commerce company, one that only sells products online, would be severely impacted.
Usually, some sort of table is created listing the various disasters being planned for and the impact they would have on the organization. In more complex scenarios, the organization may be ...
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