Business continuity
- 2. What is business continuity?How to stay in business in the event of disasterIt provides the strategy and process involved to make sure that the company survive the loss of key individual, data, equipment or facilities.It encompasses disaster recovery, backups and even business succession planningDisaster recovery refers to how companies recover from large scale disaster like earthquake or the terrorist attacks such as on the world trade center It determine how a company will keep functioning after a disruptive event until its normal facilities and capabilities are restored.
- 3. By the numbers93% of companies that lost their data for 10 days or more filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster and 50% filed for bankruptcy immediately20 % of small to medium business will suffer a major disaster causing loss of critical data every 5 years About 70 % of business people have experienced data loss due to accidental deletion, disk or system failure, viruses, fire or some other disaster40% of small to medium businesses that manage their own network and use the internet , will have their network accessed by the hackers, and more than 50 % wont even know they were attacked
- 4. Contd.. more than 60% of businesses have no plan One of the five IT organizations will suffer a major IT disaster in five yearA company experiencing a computer outage lasting longer suffer huge lossEg: eBay
- 5. BCM structureINCIDENT EMERGENCIES DISASTER PLANNING METHODOLOGYIT RECOVERYBUSINESSCONTINUITYCRISISSECURITYPLANDRPBCPPLANSSECURITYSPECIFIC INCIDENT
- 6. September 29, 2011Stages for Implementing Business Continuity and Disaster RecoveryBusiness Continuity and Disaster RecoveryResilience and Fault ToleranceData Backup and Recovery
- 7. BC-DR implementation processBC/DR PLAN PROJECT MANAGEMENTPROGRAM MANAGEMENTRISK ANALYSIS & REFVIEWBUSINESS IMPACT ANALYSISRECOVERY STRATEEGYAWARENESS & TRAININGPLAN DEVELOPMENTTESTING & EXERCISING
- 8. September 29, 2011Specific Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery RequirementsRTO – Recovery Time ObjectiveHow quickly should critical services be restoredRPO – Recovery Point ObjectiveFrom what point before system loss should data be availableHow much data loss can be accommodatedRPO (Recovery Point Objective) – Time Since Last Good BackupRTO (Recovery Time Objective) – Time to RecoverSystem Loss/FailureSystem RestoredLast System Backup/CopyOverall Recovery Time – From Last Backup to System Recovery
- 9. Components of business continuity Consist of four key componentsFacilities and infrastructure- the IT infrastructure and data must be resilient and recoverableProcesses and procedure-Business continuity /disaster recovery must be incorporated into the standard processes and proceduresOperational Business Continuity Plan-there must be an operational and tested plan to recoverBusiness Continuity –there should be a facility from which the recovered system can run.
- 10. Consideration Understand what we are protecting against -hardware failure or damage -application and data corruption -site failure and denial of access -fires, attacks Define levels of service to be providedDefine recovery methodsUnderstand business requirements and align information technology infrastructure to meet themDefine cost and benefits of implementing levels of resilience and recoverability
- 11. Maintaining Business Continuity and Disaster RecoveryOnce implemented , the effective business continuity must be regarded as a continuous processWhile this impose an overhead it ensures that business continuity implementation will continue to meet the requirements of the business and meet audit compliances requirementGood solution design will minimize effort
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