Business Continuity Plan
7 Business continuity plan activation Once the IRT has been assembled at the command centre and as much detail as possible has been collected about the incident and its impact, a decision needs to be made about the most appropriate response. [Organization Name] has a variety of business continuity procedures that provide for actions to be taken to respond to different types of incidents. These procedures are as follows:
DOC REF
PROCEDURE TITLE
PROCEDURE DESCRIPTION
Plan001
Loss of Access to Building A
Move key business activities to alternate site
Plan002
Loss of main business critical IT servers
Restore backups to warm recovery site
Plan003
Failure of Critical Supplier
Increase supply from alternative suppliers
[List all business continuity plans]
Table 4: Business continuity procedures
Based on the current understanding of the business activities affected by the incident, an appropriate combination of the above business continuity procedures should be activated to try to mitigate the impact. The BCMS form Plan Activation Log should be used to record the business continuity procedures that are activated to address the specific business activities impacted by the incident. The method of activation of each procedure is detailed in the individual procedure document.
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