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It has greater governance, risk assessment, business impactanalysis, planning, testing, and maintenance requirements than any other standard. FFIEC’s requirements are very stringent due to the critical role financial institutions play in the economy.
Sometimes the form business continuity management (BCM) is used. The activity of crisismanagement is also included under the umbrella though that tends to be treated separately.) The standard way of arriving at these targets is by conducting a BIA, or business impactanalysis.)
References to CrisisManagement and Emergency Response plans. Since most businesses today are heavily IT reliant, DRP tends to focus on business data and information systems by addressing one or several points of failure including application downtime, network outages, hardware failure, data loss, etc.
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The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. However, we’re finding that with ransomware, network outages, and all the rest of our contemporary challenges, the need to have documented, tested manual workaround procedures is greater than ever. I wish them the best.
Whether it’s a result of technology changes related to remote workforces or it’s a lack of focus away from the day-to-day as organizations keep their attention on crisismanagement, attackers know there are new opportunities to infiltrate organizations and they’re taking full advantage. Get the Business Continuity Accountability Guide.
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