Business Continuity

Nariah Allen, Danielle Ballew, Darrell Harman, Georgeanna Holmes

Business Continuity

A company's ability to continue offering goods and services even during a major disruption.

Short Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxE940f7iq0

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.

Business Continuity: A

Practical Application

» Universities weather the storm

» Hurricanes and Snowstorms˃ Lessons Learned

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

» How much do you think it cost to clean up the spill?

» What would you have done?

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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