| Every successful business should be able to | | | | plans will keep organization running. |
| continue even if there will be some disaster. | | | | Some examples which could of some help as |
| Disasters may be incidents include local like building | | | | below: |
| fires or regional like earthquakes or national | | | | * Business continuity institute |
| incidents like pandemic illnesses. Disaster could be | | | | For instance A program "Workshop to look at |
| any worst nightmare. A server overheats fire | | | | lessons learned from UK flooding" -Event: BCI |
| that consumes your computer room etc. Study | | | | Flooding Workshop on Date: 21 st November |
| and analysis of Threats like Disease, Earthquake, | | | | 2007 at Venue: The National Motorcycle Museum, |
| Fire, Flood, Cyber attack, Bribery, Hurricane, Utility | | | | Solihull. |
| outage, Terrorism.... | | | | * Some companies are actively strengthening |
| Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is staff | | | | their investment and business relationships |
| mentoring methodology used to create and | | | | throughout the different part of the globe. |
| validate a practiced logistical plan for how an | | | | * Few organization utilized IT for developing Flood |
| organization will recover and restore partially or | | | | Hazard related web pages for Customer |
| completely interrupted critical function(s) within a | | | | satisfaction Survey; visitors can assess the Web |
| predetermined time after a disaster or extended | | | | pages. The survey will also elicit information about |
| disruption. The logistical plan is called a Business | | | | the visitor's stakeholder/user group affiliation e.g., |
| Continuity Plan. BCP is how an organization | | | | Engineer, Floodplain Manager, Homeowner, or |
| prepares for future incidents that could jeopardize | | | | Renter, areas of interest |
| the organization's core mission and its long-term | | | | *Business Continuity and Disaster Planning is an |
| health. Software Industry has got four primary | | | | Investment not an Expense-is said by some |
| assets viz., facilities, hardware, network and | | | | organizations like ISO related programs. |
| data.In the event of a disaster, hardware and | | | | * RBI of India plans for business continuity and |
| networks can be replaced, and facilities can be | | | | disaster recovery management |
| moved to a new location. In fact, with the | | | | Some strategies developed like below: |
| exception of data, almost every company asset | | | | **Scenario-based Planning |
| can be replaced. Therefore, your top priority | | | | **Function-based Training |
| should be to protect the asset that's most at risk | | | | **Consequence-based Planning |
| and hardest to replace: your data. Ever growing is | | | | Any how only plans without action will NOT |
| the list of potentially business-disrupting events: | | | | work...The effective implementation and execution |
| viruses, power blackouts, natural disasters and | | | | of the plans are needed. |
| even terrorist events. Good business continuity | | | | |