Topic
Continuity Policy Statement:: Design BCP for SanGrafix
Instruction
The first step is to issue a clear policy statement on the Business Continuity Plan. At
a minimum, this statement should contain the following instructions:
The organization should develop a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan.
A formal risk assessment should be undertaken in order to determine the
requirements for the Business Continuity Plan.
The Business Continuity Plan should cover all essential and critical business
activities.
The Business Continuity Plan should be periodically tested in a simulated
environment to ensure that it can be implemented in emergency situations and
that the management and staff understand how it is to be executed.
All staff must be made aware of the Business Continuity Plan and their own
respective roles.
The Business Continuity Plan is to be kept up to date to take into account
changing circumstances.
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Normally, there are a number of systems with different continuity needs considering the levels of critical methods to the organization. The risk assessment process for the classification of systems needs to be formal but does not need to utilize any of the particular methods that would categorize the effects of the system being unavailable in terms of high, medium or low modes of criticality. An appropriate business continuity plan for every system in the case of SanGrafix can be produced. Risk assessment should be done for each system that forms part of the company’s infrastructure. The end result of the risk assessment should be the categorization for the systems depending on the criticality of the business processes. The levels of criticality would be determined depending on the effects of the failure of the system.
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