Assignment
Overview
Read the Business Continuity in Real Life case found in Chapter 3 of the textbook. Address the following business continuity plan components below for a business with which you are familiar. Each response should be 1-2 paragraphs in length submitted in MS Word. The submission is not to exceed three pages.
A. Risk Assessment: Address what events might affect the company, how much of an outage each could cause, the most likely events, which events can be ignored, and the business and technical factors used to evaluate the risk.
B. Business Impact Analysis: Explain the cost of each potential outage described in the risk assessment, how long the business could sustain the outage, including partial and full outages, as well as considerations for the loss of applications, staff and data.
C. Continuity Requirement: Describe which systems have to come online, how quickly, including justification for the best choice between a continuity provided by an offsite backup data or a cold system.
D. Business Continuity Plan: Address physical security of offsite storage facilities, staff authorized and expected to participate in post disaster operations, which staff shall participate in securing and obtaining damaged equipment from a disaster, and staff command-control communication procedures during restoration efforts.
E. Criticality and Redundancy: Prioritize functions which require redundancy based on business criticality considering the cost effectiveness for the organization using multiple redundant active sites, and the distribution of more resilient network segments.
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.