Disaster Recovery, Crisis Response, and Business Continuity: A Management Desk Reference

Governance and Reporting

Essentials for Business Continuity

This chapter presents what is essential when it comes to business continuity: making sure things are done to agreed-upon standards, understanding what challenges you might have with your practices, and knowing what routine tasks are required. This chapter covers policy, processes, the key reports, and how you can have all these without creating a bureaucracy that slows response time to disasters and other negative events.

Create a Policy

First, create a policy on business continuity. This should of course be consistent with your organization’s standards for policies. However, the thing ...