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Business
Continuity Planning and Management (BCP/BCM)
ensures that in the event of an incident the
business has a plan in place to cope with and
minimise the impact of the incident. Business
success today depends upon organisations being
able to deliver continuous services securely
despite risks, threats and incidents.
Good BCM can help maintain customer satisfaction,
minimise loss of revenue, increase stakeholder
confidence, maintain employee health and safety,
maintain brand image and meet legal obligations.
BCP should be part of organisational learning
to reduce risk associated with lax management
controls. It can be integrated with improving
information security and risk management practices.
The 2004 Civil Contingencies Act instructs all
emergency services and local authorities to
actively prepare and plan for emergencies. Local
authorities also have the legal obligation under
this act to lead the promotion of business continuity
practices.
The British Standards Institute released a new
standard for BCP in November 2007. BS 25999-2
comprises a Code of Practice and a Specification.
In 2008 BS 25777 is due for publication, which
will incorporate BCP and BCM in IT.
Authorities and companies are placing an increasing
emphasis on BCP. It is likely that companies
will become legally obliged to adopt both BCM
and BCP.
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Continuity
Planning and Management can
be implemented in five main
phases:
1.
Analysis,
including impact analysis, threat
analysis,
definition of impact scenarios,
recovery requirement
documentation.
2.
Solution
Design
3.
Implementation
4.
Testing
and Acceptance
5.
Maintenance,
including information update
and testing,
testing and verification of
technical solutions
and organisational recovery
procedures, treatment
of test failures.
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Ideascape
are an IT
company that
specialises
in BCP and
BCM. We understand
both business
and IT. We
approach BCP
from an IT
perspective.
Physical security
is the more
tangible part
of continuity,
the IT side
of continuity
less tangible
and often
more difficult
to ensure.
We can ensure
that your
BCP integrates
both physical
and IT security.
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