BCP

Chapter 8

http://www.csoonline.com/article/204450/Business_Continuity_and_Disaster_Recovery_Planning_The_Basics?page=1

I found a great article on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning by Derek Slater. In chapter 8, planning for business continuity is one of the activities a manager can expect from the IS organization. A Business continuity plan is an approved set of preparations and sufficient procedures for responding to a variety of disaster events. The article explains what the plan includes and how to succesfully create a BCP. Focusing on systems recovery is very important to a lot of companies. It is very important that after a crisis, a company can restore data or use back-up servers in order to continue conducting business. The article states "Business leaders and IT leaders should work together to determine what kind of plan is necessary and which systems and business units sre most crucial to the company." Mistakes that have been made in disaster recovery are also discussed in the article such as inadequate planning and testing. Sometimes it is difficult to convince higher executives to spend time and money on creating and testing these business continuity plans. Slater suggests addressing the need for disaster recovery or business continuity plans "through analysis and documentation of the potential financial losses". Companies will face extreme losses if they are not able to recover quickly from a crisis. IT systems are extremely important for many companies to continue with day to day business. The greater the impact on the company if a system were to fail or be affected by a disaster, the more money a company should spend to restore a system or process quickly.