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Upper Management BCP Role
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Authorizes initiation, ensures appropriate resouces are committed to the project.
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Project Manager BCP Role
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Coordinates the design and development effort. Responsible for completion, maintenance, and revisions
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Recovery Team BCP Role
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Controls the recovery operations. Provides immediate response. Restores Systems
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Business Unit Representatives BCP Role
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Defines critical business processes and assist in developing and executing the BCP
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Employees BCP Role
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Receive awareness and training.
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Business Continuity Planning Process
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1. Project management and initiation.
2. Analyze business impact.(BIA) 3. Identify recovery strategies. 4. Design and develop plan. 5. Conduct testing, maintenance, awareness, and training. |
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Business Impact Analysis(BIA)
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Requires formal approval from senior management for maximum tolerable downtime(MTD) for time-critical business processes within an organization. Is must quantify the loss impact from a financial standpoint.
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Vulnerability Assessment
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Focuses on financial and operational loss impact information for use in a business impact analysis.
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Quantitative Loss Criteria
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Loss impact from loss of revenue.
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Qualitative Loss Criteria
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Loss impact from loss of competitive advantage, market share, or credibility.
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Critical Support Criteria
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Loss impact if a critical business function cannot sustain business continuity.
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Maximum Tolerable Downtime(MTD)
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The longest period of time a business process can remain interrupted before it is unrecoverable.
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What is the difference between a BCP and a DRP?
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DRP focuses on the immediate actions needed to recover critical resources and business processes. Saving lives and minimizing added damage.
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Electronic Vaulting Transaction Redundancy Type
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Transferring bulk data to an alternative location. Electronic data transferis batch processed.
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Remote Journaling Transaction Redundancy Type
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Transmitting journal or data logs, rather than data files to an alternative location. More immediate than Electronic Vaulting.
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Database Shadowing Transaction Redundancy Type
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Mirroring database sets to multiple servers to an alternative location.
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Hot Site
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Site configured with required software and hardware. (subscription service) Most expensive option and usually includes an annual test.
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Warm Site
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Site with heat, air, power, and hardware but not pre-configured for business.
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Cold Site
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Site without resources or equipment. Most inexpensive.
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Mobile Site
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Site housed in a van or trailer that can be operated anywhere.
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Mirror Site
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Site equipped with communication lines and appropriate hardware and software to process transactions in parallel w/ primary site. Full redundancy.
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Checklist BCP/DRP Test
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Preliminary test and is not sufficient in itself to validate efficacy.
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Structured Walkthrough BCP/DRP Test
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Reps from each dept. meet to walk through the plan. Often uses different scenarios to test all phases of the plan.
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Simulation BCP/DRP Test
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Operational and support personnel come together to practice the steps they are expected to go through based on a specific scenario.
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Parallel BCP/DRP Test
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Operational test that verifies that specific systems can actually perform at the alternate location. Systems are moved to the alternate location.
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Full-Interruption BCP/DRP Test
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Full test in which normal business operations are shut down and business processes are conducted at the alternative site. Expensive but most effective test.
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Recovery Team
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Implements the recovery procedures at the onset of a disaster. Execute procedures and get the time-critical processes operating.
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Salvage Team
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Restores the primary site to its normal operating environment. Clean, repair, salvage and assess the primary location after the disaster.
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Recovery Issues
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Non-operational business concerns associated with an emergency response to a disaster.
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Media Relations Recovery Issue
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Preparing an established organizational response delivered by a trained, credible company spokesperson.
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Employee Relations Recovery Issue
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Involves managing the organization's relationship with its employees and their families.
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Finances Recovery Issue
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Involves disbursing funds in the event of a disaster and may require procedures for storing signed, authorized checks offsite.
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Fraud and Crime Recovery Issue
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Involves protection measures to thwart looting and vandalism.
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External Groups Recovery Issue
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Involves interacting with entities outside the organization, such as police, fire, utility providers, customers, and shareholders.
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