The purpose of the Business Resumption Plan
The purpose of a Business Resumption Plan is to outline procedures and strategies for a company to recover and resume its operations after a disruptive event or disaster. This plan helps organizations minimize downtime, mitigate financial losses, and maintain business continuity in natural disasters, cyberattacks, pandemics, or other unforeseen circumstances. It typically includes assessing risks, identifying critical functions and resources, establishing communication channels, and implementing recovery strategies to swiftly and effectively respond to disruptions. Ultimately, a Business Resumption Plan aims to enable businesses to bounce back quickly and resume normal operations with minimal disruption to their customers, employees, and stakeholders.
This document intends to help organize research, select, implement, and successfully execute Business Resumption Planning Strategies and Methodologies. This Business Resumption Plan document provides guidance on how to review the Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis, and Application and Data Criticality Analysis to analyze and determine the number of potential risk exposures, impacts, and data center technology risks that currently exist in the environment. Business Resumption Planning strategies and Facility Recovery Options are provided and explained.
Objectives
The objectives of implementing Business Resumption Planning Strategies and selecting a Recovery Option(s) are:
- Selection of an Overall Business Resumption Planning Program Coordinator
- The identification of recovery teams and the roles and responsibilities of each team and department
- Each department must appoint a plan owner responsible for managing the development and maintenance of individual department plans.
- Creation of a Business Resumption Planning Standard so all plans will be written to ensure consistency and coordination between them.
- The timeframes within which the relocation must be completed
- Minimum resource requirements of each department for which a plan is needed and the teams that will support them
Table of Contents for Selecting & Implementing Recovery Strategies
INTRODUCTION
Compliance
Objectives
CONTINGENCY STRATEGIES
Preventative Measures
STRATEGY OPTIONS
No Strategy
Work Area Recovery
Alternate Sites
Cold Site
Warm Site
Hot Site
Mobile Sites
Mirrored Sites
Overview of Alternate Site Options
Manual Procedures
STRATEGY CONSIDERATIONS
Staff Considerations
Staff Recovery
Technology Strategies
Vendor Agreements
Equipment Inventory
Existing Compatible Equipment
Roles and Responsibilities
Insurance Considerations
Cost Considerations
APPENDIX
Appendix A: Business Resumption Planning Process
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