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Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery & BS25999

BS25999 | ISO24762 | BS25999 Toolkit | Business Continuity & BS25999

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Introduction to Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Business continuity planning and disaster recovery are issues that every organization needs to take seriously. In an age where there is an ever increasing risk of cyber attack, cyber and real terrorism and the threat of natural disasters, businesses must ensure that they could continue trading and survive such an incident.

It is the board’s responsibility to ensure that they have a robust and fully tested business continuity and disaster recovery plan, which covers all of the risks that could potentially harm their business. A business continuity and disaster recovery plan will provide a clear set of guidelines and steps that will return operations to normal as quickly as possible. Essentially this means that businesses will not have to make judgement calls or spur of the moment decisions, which could, unintentionally harm the business.

The page provides information and products to help you understand and create your own business continuity and disaster recovery plan. We will also look at BS25999, the best practice standard for business continuity plans, and how to align your business with it.

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BS25999 - Business Continuity Best Practice

BS25999 is the best practice standard for business continuity management. As well as providing best practice guidelines it also documents how to design, implement and maintain a business continuity management system (BCMS). Disruptions to service, delays in responding to customers, the inability to process transactions, or the inability to resume business in the face of a disaster, can all impact on an organisation's effective operation. Organizations aligned with BS25999 can demonstrate to their stakeholders and customers that they have adequate business continuity plans and thus instil confidence and help them win business.

Every organization should have a business continuity plan. Smaller organizations can get immediate continuity cover by using this step-by-step guidance and planning templates, whereas larger organizations should consider deploying a comprehensive Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan Template Kit.

IT Governance recommends these Business Continuity & BS25999 titles:

BS25999 A Pocket Guide - gives a straightforward introduction to the subjects of business continuity and BS 25999, essential reading for anyone considering implementing a BS 2599 BCMS. Read more >>>

The Route Map to Business Continuity Management - is the best selling guide to business continuity management. It provides key insights on how to go about implementing BS25999. Read more >>>

BS25999 BCMS Implementation Toolkit - provides all the tools and templates that will enable you to create your own BCMS in line with BS25999. Read more >>>

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Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is the establishment of procedures and practices for the development, testing and maintenance of a plan that will enable an organization to continue operating during and after a disaster. Plans are typically designed to cope with incidents affecting all the organization's business-critical processes and activities, from failure of a single server, or server room, all the way through to complete loss of a major facility. The Best Practice Business Continuity Kit contains essential materials and tools for organisations who are implementing a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) or a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) within their organization.

The business continuity management life-cycle usually includes a series of steps:

risk assessment
business impact analysis (BIA)
plan development
documentation
testing
maintenance.

This process is described in Business Continuity Planning - a Step-by-Step Guide.

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Disaster Recovery Planning

Disaster Recovery Planning (DCP) is usually a set of technical plans that will enable a business to recover operations that include specific operations, sites, applications and services. DRP takes place within the BCP framework and a single BCP could contain several DRP's. When working on a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project it is essential that BC and DR professionals are using a common vocabulary. Business Continuity and BS25999: A Combined Glossary provides you with such a language, listing hundreds of useful and practical terms and definitions

Organizations conducting DCP should invest in ISO/IEC 24762 the world's best practice standard for IT disaster recovery planning.

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ISO22301

ISO22301 is the new international standard for business continuity management. It will be officially launched late2011/early2012 and will replace the current BS25999 standard. To give the standard its official title "ISO 22301 (ISO22301) - Societal Security - Preparedness and continuity management systems – Requirements". As soon as there updates on this standard we will update this page.