Week 4 Discussion 7-10-2015

You will learn approaches on how to plan for impacts that could potentially cause disruptions.
You will learn to create BIA, BCP, and DRP.
You will learn what types of support services would be deployed when an incident occurs
You will explore support services that would be required when an incident impacts the operational performance of an organization.

I have had a situation likes this, I was working for a company in Texas and the transformer blew, due to a sever storm rolling through and the entire company went dark. So we were called in over night to have the DRP take place, thankfully they did have as hot site as well. So the BCP worked great, and with very little issues at all. Over all the BIA, DRP and the BCP worked smoothly and we were up in running by morning before anyone came into work that morning.

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) identifies an organization's exposure to internal and external threats and synthesizes hard and soft assets to provide effective prevention and recovery for the organization, whilst maintaining competitive advantage and value system integrity. An impact analysis results in the differentiation between critical (urgent) and non-critical (non-urgent) organization functions/ activities. A function may be considered critical if the implications for stakeholders of damage to the organization resulting are regarded as unacceptable. Perceptions of the acceptability of disruption may be modified by the cost of establishing and maintaining appropriate business or technical recovery solutions. Disaster recovery plan (DRP) is the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity. While business continuity