Objectives of a Business Impact Analysis
The overall objective of a BIA is to identify the impact of outages. More specifically, the goal is to identify the critical functions that can affect the organization. After the critical functions have been identified, the critical resources that support these functions can be identified.
Each resource has an MAO and an impact if it fails. The ultimate goal is to identify the recovery requirements. FIGURE 12-3 shows these overall steps: Input is gathered from process owners and experts to help identify the CBFs and the critical resources that support them, the impact and MAO of the resources are identified, and the recovery requirements from the MAO are determined.
FIGURE 12-3 Objectives of a BIA. ...
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