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Validating your business continuity plan : ensuring your BCP really works / Robert A. Clark.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom : IT Governance Publishing, 2015Description: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781849287746
  • 1849287740
  • 9781849287753
  • 1849287759
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Validating your business continuity planDDC classification:
  • 658.4/056 23
LOC classification:
  • HD49 .C53 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Foreword; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence; 1.2 The benefits of effective validation; 1.3 Why do we need to exercise our BCP?; 1.4 Does everyone need to validate their BCP?; 1.5 In the beginning there was a flood; Chapter 2: Standards and guidelines; 2.1 What is in a name?; 2.2 Regulations, legislations, standards and good practice; 2.3 The ISO22301 BCMS family of standards; 2.4 The Business Continuity Institute's good practice guidelines.
2.5 Small and medium size enterprise considerations2.6 Quality assurance; Chapter 3: Business continuity begins at home; Chapter 4: Defining your exercise programme; 4.1 Securing an exercise programme budget; 4.2 Planning your exercises; 4.3 Executing your exercises; 4.4 Post exercise activity; 4.5 Validating outsourced products and services; 4.6 Running unannounced exercises; 4.7 Assessing the costs and risks; Chapter 5: Selected Scenarios; 5.1 Media communications; 5.2 ICT disaster recovery; 5.3 Terrorism; 5.4 Scenario summary; Chapter 6: Live rehearsal case studies.
6.1 From a full dress rehearsal to the real thing inside four months6.2 Guildhall filled with smoke for training exercise; 6.3 Airport simulates runway aircraft collision; 6.4 Rehearsing a 9/11 type scenario 16 years before it happened; 6.5 Sorry, you cannot evacuate the building before lunch is finished!; 6.6 Three active shooter situation exercises; 6.7 Waking Shark II -- Desktop cyber exercise; 6.8 Wave I pandemic exercise; 6.9 Twitter used in mock bomb threat exercise; 6.10 Responding to a WMD incident; 6.11 Power failure -- testing your generators; 6.12 Bomb scare at General Hospital.
6.13 No, Rakesh is an IndianChapter 7: It could happen to anyone, couldn't it?; 7.1 Did you hear the one about the Irish business continuity exercise?; 7.2 Don't forget to tell the emergency services; 7.3 Your shortest RTO is two hours and it will take three hours to retrieve your BCP; 7.4 La piece de resistance -- and I couldn't even claim the credit; 7.5 Who has got the disaster recovery site key?; 7.6 I'm sorry, he doesn't live here anymore; 7.7 Don't forget your desktop environment; 7.8 We can't come, it's our Christmas cruise; 7.9 Who forgot to tell the catering manager?
7.10 Check the small print in the contract7.11 Oh, we did a full live exercise of our BCP last Monday; Chapter 8: Maintaining your BCMS; 8.1 Maintenance activities; 8.2 Keeping abreast of organisational changes; 8.3 Project control; 8.4 Managing your documentation; Chapter 9: Reviewing your BCMS; 9.1 Introduction; Chapter 10: Performance appraisal; Chapter 11: Using consultants to help you exercise; Chapter 12: Training and education; 12.1 Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute; 12.2 Diploma of the Business Continuity Institute; 12.3 Bachelor's Degree in Business Continuity.
Summary: Disruptive incidents can affect any organisation and occur at any moment. ICT outages, cyber attacks, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, pandemics, supply chain failures and other unexpected events can all affect productivity and in many cases place a company's survival in serious jeopardy. This book examines the three essential components of validating a business continuity plan - exercising, maintenance and review - and outlines a controlled and systematic approach to BCP validation while considering each component, covering methods and techniques such as table-top reviews, workshops and live rehearsals. It also takes account of industry standards and guidelines to help steer the reader through the validation process, including the international standard ISO 22301 and the Business Continuity Institute's Good Practice Guidelines. A number of case studies based on the author's experience are provided. -- Edited summary from book.
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Disruptive incidents can affect any organisation and occur at any moment. ICT outages, cyber attacks, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, pandemics, supply chain failures and other unexpected events can all affect productivity and in many cases place a company's survival in serious jeopardy. This book examines the three essential components of validating a business continuity plan - exercising, maintenance and review - and outlines a controlled and systematic approach to BCP validation while considering each component, covering methods and techniques such as table-top reviews, workshops and live rehearsals. It also takes account of industry standards and guidelines to help steer the reader through the validation process, including the international standard ISO 22301 and the Business Continuity Institute's Good Practice Guidelines. A number of case studies based on the author's experience are provided. -- Edited summary from book.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Foreword; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence; 1.2 The benefits of effective validation; 1.3 Why do we need to exercise our BCP?; 1.4 Does everyone need to validate their BCP?; 1.5 In the beginning there was a flood; Chapter 2: Standards and guidelines; 2.1 What is in a name?; 2.2 Regulations, legislations, standards and good practice; 2.3 The ISO22301 BCMS family of standards; 2.4 The Business Continuity Institute's good practice guidelines.

2.5 Small and medium size enterprise considerations2.6 Quality assurance; Chapter 3: Business continuity begins at home; Chapter 4: Defining your exercise programme; 4.1 Securing an exercise programme budget; 4.2 Planning your exercises; 4.3 Executing your exercises; 4.4 Post exercise activity; 4.5 Validating outsourced products and services; 4.6 Running unannounced exercises; 4.7 Assessing the costs and risks; Chapter 5: Selected Scenarios; 5.1 Media communications; 5.2 ICT disaster recovery; 5.3 Terrorism; 5.4 Scenario summary; Chapter 6: Live rehearsal case studies.

6.1 From a full dress rehearsal to the real thing inside four months6.2 Guildhall filled with smoke for training exercise; 6.3 Airport simulates runway aircraft collision; 6.4 Rehearsing a 9/11 type scenario 16 years before it happened; 6.5 Sorry, you cannot evacuate the building before lunch is finished!; 6.6 Three active shooter situation exercises; 6.7 Waking Shark II -- Desktop cyber exercise; 6.8 Wave I pandemic exercise; 6.9 Twitter used in mock bomb threat exercise; 6.10 Responding to a WMD incident; 6.11 Power failure -- testing your generators; 6.12 Bomb scare at General Hospital.

6.13 No, Rakesh is an IndianChapter 7: It could happen to anyone, couldn't it?; 7.1 Did you hear the one about the Irish business continuity exercise?; 7.2 Don't forget to tell the emergency services; 7.3 Your shortest RTO is two hours and it will take three hours to retrieve your BCP; 7.4 La piece de resistance -- and I couldn't even claim the credit; 7.5 Who has got the disaster recovery site key?; 7.6 I'm sorry, he doesn't live here anymore; 7.7 Don't forget your desktop environment; 7.8 We can't come, it's our Christmas cruise; 7.9 Who forgot to tell the catering manager?

7.10 Check the small print in the contract7.11 Oh, we did a full live exercise of our BCP last Monday; Chapter 8: Maintaining your BCMS; 8.1 Maintenance activities; 8.2 Keeping abreast of organisational changes; 8.3 Project control; 8.4 Managing your documentation; Chapter 9: Reviewing your BCMS; 9.1 Introduction; Chapter 10: Performance appraisal; Chapter 11: Using consultants to help you exercise; Chapter 12: Training and education; 12.1 Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute; 12.2 Diploma of the Business Continuity Institute; 12.3 Bachelor's Degree in Business Continuity.

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