April 9th, 2011 | 
Author: As the business world becomes more dependent on technology, there are number of precautions they have to take in order to protect their operations. When it comes to business computer systems, preparations have to be implemented in the event an incident occurs that puts data at risk of permanent loss due to an unexpected disaster.
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Emergencies happen within a business. That is something that is inevitable. You never know when an entire system is going to crash or another disaster may come about. You have to be prepared for these things. If you’re not, then everything will be chaotic. No one will know what to do. In other words, everyone will be running around asking each other, “What do we do now?” And no one is going to have an answer.
The Importance of Business Continuity Planning
Business Continuity Planning can offer protection from many potential risks that can threaten your company by disrupting critical business processes. These risks include traditional disasters like earthquakes, fires, floods, and tornados, as well as risks from terrorism (both physical and cyberterrorism), cybercrime, computer failures, theft and employee sabotage. Any one of these events can be extremely disruptive and detrimental to your business, yet all of the potential damage from each of them can be substantially minimized through business continuity management.
If you’ve ever spent a few nervous days awaiting the recovery of critical information, you know that when your technology is down, your business goes down with it. From fires to floods, from a computer virus to the intern who just spilled coffee all over the server – you need a plan that will get you up and running again, with no hassles and minimal downtime.
Identify your data recovery needs
Data Recovery is vital for the survival of your business. Your data defines and separates your business from any other in the market. If failure should occur at any level of your infrastructure it can be felt across the business. You must ask yourself, how would your business survive a disaster? And what provisions do you have in place for your business to continue after?
Whenever accidents, disasters and natural events interrupt day-to-day business activities, one thing can be certain: corporations lose money. The amount of money often depends on how prepared businesses are for dealing with interruptions. An up-to-date, well-planned and well-practiced disaster recovery plan often makes the difference between quickly returning to business as usual and failing for months or even years from the devastating repercussions.
Businesses are critically dependent on information and the technology used to collect, process, and deliver the information. From customer and supplier data to financial and operational data, businesses generate an enormous amount of information necessary to run the organization.
The risk analysis and business impact analysis have identified risks to key business functions. Also, the potential impacts and probabilities of these risks as well as the costs to prevent or mitigate damages and the time to recover will have been established. Evaluating and selecting strategies is based on using this knowledge. Strategy selection involves focusing on key risk areas and selecting a strategy for each one. The primary goals are to maintain business continuity in the face of a disruption or disaster, to recover key business functions quickly and to mitigate damages.
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In the risk evaluation phase, some main areas need to be covered. An important thing would be to understand any probable threats. Probably in an ideal world, which we know do not exist, we might be able to identify and protect ourselves from all threats to be able to ensure that our business would be able to continue surviving. We are obviously held back by the other factors like time, budget and priorities and we need to apply some kind of cost benefit analysis so that we could make sure that we are able to protect the most important business functions. Clearly, the same impact could result from different threats.