Business Continuity
A company's ability to continue offering goods and services even during a major disruption.
Top 5 Ways to Fail at Business Continuity» “Less-than-perfect”
business continuity program
» Five of the most common reasons why business continuity planning initiatives fail include:
1) Failing to Understand Organization
2) Executing Methodology Instead of Managing a Program
3) Too Much Business Continuity Jargon
4) Unrealistic recovery objectives
5) Failing to create a culture
IT Department Mistakes
» Underestimating the Physical Scale of a Possible Disaster
» Underestimating Recovery Effort» Obsolete and Long Lead Time
Equipment» Unrealistic Quick Ship
Agreements» Redundancy that isn’t Redundant» Backups for non-IT Equipment
IT Department Mistakes
» Loss of Passwords» Undocumented Procedures
and Ill-defined Responsibilities
» Limitations of Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Backup Generators
» Missing Dependencies and Recovery Tasks
» Competition for Outside Resources
Disaster Recovery» Disaster Recovery involves the process of
saving data so that, in the event of a disaster, it can be recovered. ˃ Such as storing data in a secondary location
» Sometimes the “recovery of data” is the only issue that managers have time to focus on. ˃ however it is just a piece of a puzzle.
» Business continuity does not just revolve around data and the recovery of data, it revolves around the business/recovery of the business.
Good Planning» Person Independent» Prioritize Systems» Lines of Communications» Location Specific» Testing and Refreshing
Implications» Disaster Recovery
˃ Take me back to yesterday
» Business Continuity˃ Keeping the doors open for tomorrow
BP Oil Spill» April 20,2010: Off-shore oil
drilling rig exploded 41 miles from the Louisiana Coast
» Oil leaked for 3 months between 35,000 – 65,000 barrels a day
» Ended in July with a total of 4.9 million gallons being spilled
» Biggest offshore oil spill in history
BP Oil Spill & Disaster
Recovery
• Practice can be almost perfect
• How much does it cost to fix the damages?
• Value vs Volume
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