1. Business Continuity Planning
By
Hafiza Abas
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2. Business Continuity
• Definition:
Business continuity is the activity performed by
an organization to ensure that critical
business functions will be available to
customers, suppliers, regulators, and other
entities that must have access to those
functions
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3. Business Continuity Plan
Business continuity plans help you how
you will continue to operate once disaster
strikes.
They will help you figure out how to get back up
and running as quickly as possiblerunning as quickly as possible.
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4. Business Continuity Planning
(BCP)
• Making contingency plans for a business-
threatening emergency and continuing the
business in the event of a disaster.
• Domain is all about business.
• 9/11 incident, East Coast power black-out,
Tsunami.
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5. Contingency Planning Timeline
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6. BCP and DRP
• BCP & DRP domains address the
preservation of business in the face of major
disruptions to normal operations,
• BCP & DRP involve the preparation, testing,
and updating of the actions required to
protect critical business processes from the
effects of major system and network failures.
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7. BCP
The BCP process includes the following:
 Scope and plan initiation
 Business IMPACT Assessment (BIA)
 Business continuity plan development
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8. Business Continuity
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9. DISASTER DEFINITION
A DISASTER IS “ A SUDDENLY OCCURING OR
UNSTOPPABLE DEVELOPING EVENT THAT:
 Causes loss of life, suffering, loss of
valuables or damage to the environment
 Overwhelms local resources or efforts
 Has a long-term impact on social or natural
life that is always negative in the
beginning.”
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10. DISASTER DEFINITION
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11. DRP
DRP process includes the following
 Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
processes
 Testing the disaster recovery plan
 Disaster recovery procedure
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12. Business Continuity Planning
Simply put, BCP are created
 to prevent interruptions to normal business
activity.
 to protect critical business processes from natural
or man-made failures / disasters and the loss of
capital resulting from availability of normal
business processes.
 as a strategy to minimize the effect of
disturbances an to allow for the resumption of
business processes.
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13. BCP
• BCP should look at all critical information-processing
areas of a company, among them:
• LANs, WANs and servers
• Telecommunications & data communication links
• Workstations and workspaces
• Applications, s/w & data
• Media and record storage
• Staff duties and production processes
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14. Four Prime Elements of BCP
 Scope and Plan Initiation
 Business Impact Assessment
 Business Continuity Plan Development
 Plan Approval & Implementation
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15. Summary
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