‘I am often asked what one single piece of advice I can recommend that would be most helpful to the business community. My answer is a simple, but effective, business continuity plan that is regularly reviewed and tested’
(Extract of a speech by Eliza Manningham-Buller, Director-
General of MI5, to the UK CBI Conference, November 2004)
Business Continuity is part of Business Resilience, together with Disaster Recovery procedures, Business Continuity is necessary to be implemented in order to create resilient organization. Business Continuity is implemented to ensure business critical functions are available to stakeholders within and outside of an organization, such as customers, suppliers and regulators.
While Disaster Recovery focus on recovery of business critical IT functions in case of disaster, Business Continuity Management covers continuous operations of non-it business critical functions and their recovery in case of disaster together with efforts to ensure continuous operations of business critical IT functions.
For instance Backup & Recovery, even though necessary process for Disaster Recovery is typically part of Business Continuity Management. Typically Disaster Recovery plan and strategy is subset of Business Continuity plan. Business Continuity plan comes to play in Disaster Recovery as input, for instance Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) are based on Maximal Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD) and Maximal Tolerable Data Loss (MTDL) from Business Impact Analysis – an essential part of Business Continuity Plan.
We help organizations identify, asses and protect their business critical functions. We use layered approach to Business Continuity, we approach Business Continuity from following angles:
- Organization and personnel
- Processes
- Applications and data
- Technology
- Facilities
On each layer that creates your organization, we identify business critical and less critical objects through Business Impact Analysis and work with you on development right Business Continuity strategy to protect them and mitigate risks. Contact us today to protect your business together.
