Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Checklist

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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Checklist Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Project Approach 1. Business Impact Analysis a. Review existing business continuity capabilities: i. Evaluate the risk to business process failures ii. Identify critical and necessary business functions/processes and their resource dependencies iii. Estimate the financial and operational impacts of disruption and the required recovery timeframe for these critical business functions iv. Assess the effectiveness of existing risk reduction measures b. Compile BIA Report: i. Financial impact of disruption ii. Operational impact of disruption iii. Prioritized critical functions for business continuity iv. Recover time frames for critical functions v. Required resources (i.e. computer systems, vital records, telecommunications, and work areas) for business continuity 2. Strategy Selection a. Identify a range of specific recovery strategies to address interruptions of production processes b. Identify the computing resources required to recover the various distributed processing environments c. Document alternative recovery strategies within a Recovery Strategy Selection report 3. Business Continuity Plan Documentation a. Create new Business Continuity Plan including: i. Emergency notification and disaster declaration procedures ii. Recovery team procedures iii. Facility and business restoration procedures iv. BCP testing and maintenance cycles v. Appendices for master contact lists, equipment inventories, connectivity schematics, etc.

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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning Checklist

Published on Jul 31, 2020

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It is critical for organizations to ensure that they have business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. However, it can be easy to put business continuity and disaster recovery planning on the back burner if your organization has never been affected by a disaster. But what would happen if a power outage, tornado, or data breach hit your organization and you didn’t have any plan in place? How would your organization stay running in the event of a disaster? Where would employees continue to carry out their work duties? How would incident response be communicated throughout your organization? Disaster strikes when you’re least expecting it. It’s critical that you ensure that your organization is prepared. So, what can organizations do to create an effective business continuity plan? Let’s find out.