Overview

The emphasis for business continuity today is on the organization’s critical business processes that need to be recovered in the event of a disaster for the survival of the organization. Information technology is, therefore, only one of the critical dependencies.

Business continuity plans (BCP) are no longer a luxury, but an essential element of an organization’s risk management programme.

Certified BCP implementer covers the following areas:

• Business resumption planning: The operation's piece of business continuity planning.
• Disaster recovery planning: The technological aspect of business continuity planning; the advance planning and preparations necessary to minimize loss and ensure continuity of the critical business functions of an organization in the event of disaster.
• Crisis management: The overall coordination of an organization’s response to a crisis in an effective, timely manner, with the goal of avoiding or minimizing damage to the organization’s profitability, reputation or ability to operate.

• Initiation of project
• Develop a Mission Statement and BCP Project Plan
• Preparing a Project budget and Reporting Process
• Identification of Critical Business Resources and processes
• Identification & Quantification of organizational risk
• Identification of dependencies on business processes & maximum allowable downtime
• Identification and quantification of resources required for recovery
• Determination of impact to the organization
• Determination of Continuity & Recovery strategies
• Identification of the most appropriate tools & plans
• Identification of recovery resources
• Structure and Documentation of plans and procedures
• Conducting BC awareness and training programme
• Implementation of designed procedures
• Defining testing strategies and methods
• Conducting testing
• Test result documentation and reporting
• Identification of ownership and triggers for updates
• Determine maintenance regime and processes
• Implementation of “Version Control” method