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An Introduction to FFIEC: BCM’s Gold Standard

MHA Consulting

It has greater governance, risk assessment, business impact analysis, planning, testing, and maintenance requirements than any other standard. And its focus on continuous improvement helps ensure that organizations are always prepared to respond to disruptions and minimize their impact.

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7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy 

MHA Consulting

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. Step 5: Perform a BIA The business impact analysis tells you which of your business processes are most critically time sensitive. Applications and systems used and their importance.

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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Theoretically, the business departments are free to say anything they want in terms of how quickly the business functions need to be brought back online in order to keep the impact of a disruption within acceptable levels. The standard way of arriving at these targets is by conducting a BIA, or business impact analysis.)

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Customer Value Story: Planning for the Unexpected

LogisManager

Their process for developing and updating their BCP initially involved holding in-person interviews with department heads to gather information about various impacts to their core processes in case of an outage: Who are their key team members? What vendors or applications do they rely on? What are their workaround processes?

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Disaster Recovery Plan vs. Business Continuity Plan: Is There a Difference?

Diligent

In either case, a written plan is vital, including a detailed business impact analysis that should be updated regularly. Doing so enables you to methodically record the systems and technologies that will be impacted by an outage across the entirety of your organization. The timeframe for doing so.

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Risk Assessment, BIA, SLAs, RTOs, and RPOs: What’s the Link? MTD and MTDL

Zerto

Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. Differentiating Between Risk Assessment (RA) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA). What Is a Business Impact Analysis?

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

References to Runbooks detailing all applicable procedures step-by-step, with checklists and flow diagrams. BCP Includes Business Impact Analysis, Risk Assessment, And Strategy Development. Risk Assessment: 3 Key Starting Points for Effective Business Impact Analysis. A schedule defining reviews, tests of the plan.

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