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Making Business Continuity Child’s PlayMaking Business Continuity Child’s Play

Solutions Ltd

Business Continuity Management

Contact details: Contact : Mick O’Regan Mobile : 087-2897687 Email : [email protected] Web : www.abcsolutions.ie Absolute Business Continuity Solutions Ltd.

Presentation

February 2008

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Presentation Overview

Why Continuity Planning is important

BS25999 framework

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Why BCP is important

If potential risk occurs Business Continuity could be threatened

By systematically reviewing the risks you can reduce the risk of an incident occurring limit the impact if the worst comes to pass

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Making Business Continuity Child’s PlayMaking Business Continuity Child’s Play

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Making Business Continuity Child’s PlayMaking Business Continuity Child’s Play

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Making Business Continuity Child’s PlayMaking Business Continuity Child’s Play

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Making Business Continuity Child’s PlayMaking Business Continuity Child’s Play

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Other Incidents

High profile incidents Sept. ’07 - Protim Little Island Fire Aug. ‘07 - Glanbia Meats Edenderry Aug. ‘07 - Web sites hacked Feb. ‘07 - HSE HQ Cork Dennehys Cross Jan. ’06 - C&D Pet Foods Dec. ‘05 - Hemel Hempstead Sept. ’03 - Sunbeam

Incidents not publicised Jan. ’07 - Cork Airport Business Park evacuated due to

GAS leak Jan. ’07 - BofI Cabinteely Power outage

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What is Business Continuity Management (BCM)? BCM is about ensuring that your Business prepares a

plan to handle a serious incident. During this process you can identify ways to reduce the risk of an incident happening and minimise the impact if it does happen.

If an incident occurs key staff should be trained to handle the situation through testing and exercising which will enable your business to continue to function to the agreed level with the least disruption possible.

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Task Name

Incident

Executive

BusinessRecovery

Team

Incident/Emergency Response

Team

DepartmentalRecovery

Teams

Planning 0 - 1 Hour 1 hour - 2 days > 2 days

Committment

Life Cycle of an Incident

Emergency ResponseActions

(Building Evacuation etc)

Incident ManagementActions

RecoveryActions

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Key output from BCM process

Define the : Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) – to what point in time you need to recover the MCA

Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) – how quickly you need to recover the MCA

• Identify Mission Critical Activities (MCA)

• Identify key Inputs\Outputs

Key Suppliers ; Documents• Identify Maximum Tolerable Outage (MTO)

and Minimum Essential Service (MES)

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BCM process overview

Risk Analysis

Threat => Probability & Impact

ID Controls – in place; required

(Reduce risk to acceptable level)Backup & Recovery

Strategy

Incident

ID Recovery teams• Emergency• Disaster Recovery• Business recovery

Recovery Activities

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BCM – Recovery strategy

Depends on type of incident being covered Loss of Primary office – alternative work area

and/or use other alternative office Sensitive information disclosed – policy &

procedures to avoid; handle PR via Incident Management

Loss of key individuals – cross-train

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Drivers for Business Continuity ManagementKey Stakeholders Customers Regulator – Law Society Staff Board of Directors Insurance Company (Highly Protected Risk status!) Supply Chain Protection of the Organisation’s Reputation Others?

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BS25999 BCM Framework

BCMProgramme

Management

Developing and

implementing

a BCM Response

Determining

BCM options

Exercising, maintenance auditing and

self-assessment

Understandingthe organization

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2. Business Continuity Strategy

Do nothing Insurance Prevention Mirror sites Gentlemen's agreement Work area recovery – hot-site

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3. Develop and Implement Business Continuity Response

The BCP plan

Includes Incident (Crisis) Management IT DR plan Business Unit plan

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4. Building & Embedding a Continuity Culture Awareness program

Education

BCM Training

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5. Testing, Maintenance and Audit

Testing (Exercising) strategies• Call out test • Desk-top exercise • IT team recover systems • Business Users simulate work process

Maintain the plan • Quarterly reviews• After major change

Audit• Independent review – BCM framework and plans

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6. BCM Programme Management

Roles and responsibilities Identify key individuals

BC policy

Cross-check Business Unit decisions and deal with cross- business conflicts

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Failing to Plan

is

Planning to Fail

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Absolute Business Continuity Solutions

Services on offer Plan development Explore continuity strategies Document BCP/DR/Incident Management Plans Implement staff awareness & training Test, Maintain and Review plans

Absolute Business Continuity Solutions are available to help you with all elements of the BCM process

QUESTIONS?Contact Details Contact : Mick O’Regan Mobile : 087-2897687 Email : [email protected] Web : www.abcsolutions.ie Absolute Business Continuity Solutions Ltd.