Business Continuity Plan
Transcript: The implementation phase involves policy changes, material acquisitions, staffing and mock testing Technical aspects of BCP Biannual or annual maintenance cycle maintenance of a BCP manual is broken down into three periodic activities. Confirmation of information in the manual, roll out to staff for awareness and specific training for critical individuals. Testing and verification of technical solutions established for recovery operations. Testing and verification of organization recovery procedures. multiple firewalls within and outside the cloud and servers Conduct Validation Exercises Desktop walk-thru or more Realistic simulation || “fire drill” Pre-exercise brief, audit the process, document progress, allow participant feedback, and debrief Business Contingency at Croods, Inc, - Why? Business Contingency Plan Business processes have to continuously evolve around the Crood's risk management framework The planning phase brings together multiple people within Croods who help design the plan Application security and service patch distribution Hardware operability Application operability Data verification Data application If continuous monitoring and regular maintenance of patches are not updated, the contingency plan may fail due to a lack of resources, proper reporting, technology, and inability to follow through with plan procedures At Croods, Inc a BCP is essential to it's success therefore... Objective The purpose of testing is to achieve organizational acceptance that the solution satisfies the recovery requirements. Plans may fail to meet expectations due to insufficient or inaccurate recovery requirements, solution design flaws or solution implementation errors. The last step is to test the plan and maintain it with continuous monitoring Testing and organizational acceptance Risks: Contingency Planning requires companies to think about: Training Plan Design Implement Test A management process that provides the strategic and operational framework to review and, where appropriate, to (re-)design the way an organization provides its products and services while increasing its resilience to disruption, interruption, or loss. Definition: -To practice & enhance readiness to ensure Business continues regardless -To update & improve business continuity plans, recovery plans, and system recovery procedures Definition continued Then they design the plan framework in accordance with company policies and budgetary requirements Conclusion continuous monitoring Periodic presentations to team members, management, new employees Any event that could impact operations is included, such as supply chain interruption, loss of or damage to critical infrastructure (major machinery or computing/network resource). As such, risk management must be incorporated as part of BCP Maintenance what is a disaster? how much loss can be tolerate? what are my options? what will a recovery plan cost? how quick do i need to reestablish business functions? Testing may include: Crisis command team call-out testing Technical swing test from primary to secondary work locations Technical swing test from secondary to primary work locations Application test Business process test Enable your organization to survive a disaster and to resume normal business in the shortest time So... lets lay out the process at Croods Croods, Inc