| The main reason for an organization to define and | | | | An organization Continuity Management Strategy |
| implement a business continuity plan template is to | | | | goes further than the simple elaboration of the |
| establish a backup plan which can protect an | | | | Business Continuity Plan Template and Disaster |
| organization's core assets and set up a group of | | | | Recovery Plan. During its implementation, the |
| standard procedures to address catastrophes and | | | | Continuity Management processes are evaluated |
| disaster recovery actions. | | | | from beginning to end and its respective internal |
| These reactive actions are usually specified in the | | | | observance and adoption in the organization is |
| business continuity plan template and are its | | | | regularly assessed and tested. For that reason, |
| processes and measures are kept updated by the | | | | this examination will enable the continuity |
| continuity manager (or disaster recovery | | | | managers to determine the scope of the Business |
| manager), who is normally the qualified | | | | Continuity Plan Template and the necessary |
| professional responsible for its widespread | | | | actions to react to incidents and crises. |
| adoption in a company. | | | | Therefore, testing and validating the procedures is |
| This is a recent profession and it can be | | | | also an ordinary activity of the Business Continuity |
| performed by one or more full-time employees or | | | | Plan itself, which requires training the staff and the |
| by other professionals within the organization that | | | | people involved in its implementation. |
| take over that responsibility alongside another | | | | These are the high level key steps involved in the |
| function. | | | | design, implementation and testing of a Business |
| Nevertheless, establishing and defining a Continuity | | | | Continuity Plan and the key deliverables of each |
| Strategy is a process, more than a job. It is a | | | | phase |
| document that writes in great detail the | | | | Draft |
| procedures that must be adopted on a continued | | | | Definition of the scope, impact analysis and |
| basis and which reactive actions should be | | | | strategy to address disaster |
| triggered in case of a disaster that impact core | | | | Detailed plans |
| business processes. | | | | Details of the procedures, resources and |
| One key piece of a successful Continuity | | | | services required to implement the plan |
| Management Analysis is to analyse and assess the | | | | Implementation |
| business impact of eventual disasters. This | | | | Training, deployment of the necessary |
| analysis allows the company to prepare to the | | | | infrastructure and implementation |
| "worst case scenario" consequences of downtime | | | | Tests and simulations of the continuity plans |
| in key business areas and understand the | | | | Test the actions and procedures in simulated |
| minimum requirements of each of those | | | | scenarios to assess the merits of the of the plan. |
| processes to operate. | | | | |