2. The benefits of business continuity:
• Having a business continuity plan in place will keep businesses trading when they would have
otherwise have probably failed due to an incident.
• Business continuity plans can significantly reduce the cost of disruptions.
• Companies with business continuity plans benefit from insurance premium discounts, reduced
excesses and doors opening to new insurance markets.
• Having a business continuity plan allows what would otherwise be unacceptable risks to be insured.
Norah Al Aslmey
3. A BCP typically includes five sections:
• BCP Governance
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Plans, measures, and arrangements for business continuity
• Readiness procedures
• Quality assurance techniques (exercises, maintenance and auditing)
Creating a business continuity plan
Fatimah Aseel
4. • Develop questionnaire.
• Conduct workshop to Instruct business function and process managers how to complete
the BIA.
• Receive Completed BIA questionnaire forms.
• Review BIA questionnaires.
• Conduct follow-up interviews to validate information and fill any information gaps.
Business impact analysis
Sara Faris Al Swar
5. • Identify and document resource requirements based on BIAs.
• Conduct gap analysis to determine gaps between recovery requirements and current
capabilities.
• Explore recovery strategies with management approval.
• Implement strategies.
Recover Strategies
Fatimah Aseel
6. • Develop plan framework.
• Organize recovery teams.
• Develop Relocation Plans.
• Write business continuity and IT disaster recovery procedures.
• Document manual workarounds.
• Assemble plan; validate gain management approval.
Plan Development
Ashwag Sami
7. • Develop testing, exercise and maintenance requirements.
• Conduct training for business continuity team.
• Conduct orientation exercises.
• Conduct testing and document test results.
• Update BCP to incorporate lessons learned from testing and exercises.
Testing & Exercises
Reem Al Subaie
8. Disruptions are handled in three steps:
• Response
1. Incident management
2. Communications management
3. Operations management
• Continuation of critical services
Communications management is essential to control rumors, maintain contact with the media, emergency services and vendors, and assure
employees, the public and other affected stakeholders.
• Recovery and restoration
An Emergency Operations Center (EOC) can be used to manage operations in the event of a disruption. Having a centralized EOC where
information and resources can be coordinated, managed and documented helps ensure effective and efficient response.
What to do when a disruption occurs
Norah Al aslmey
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