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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

They soon find the field contains an abundance of specialist terms such as inherent risk , mitigation controls , and recovery time objective. The standard way of arriving at these targets is by conducting a BIA, or business impact analysis.) The larger point is, this is the zone where BC and IT/DR meet.

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What is BCM? Basics of business continuity management explained.

BMC

Impact analysis Once you have identified the risks and their level of severity, take each one and identify what areas of your business it would impact and what type of time it would take you to get running again. Then rank them in order of severity.

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7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy 

MHA Consulting

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. Step 5: Perform a BIA The business impact analysis tells you which of your business processes are most critically time sensitive.

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Risk Assessment, BIA, SLAs, RTOs, and RPOs: What’s the Link? MTD and MTDL

Zerto

Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. Differentiating Between Risk Assessment (RA) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA). What Is a Business Impact Analysis?

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

” The BCP is a master document that details your organization’s entire prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery protocols for all kinds of threats and disasters. BCP Includes Business Impact Analysis, Risk Assessment, And Strategy Development.

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The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional

MHA Consulting

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest. Artificial intelligence is coming to BC.

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Understanding Recovery Time Objectives: A Key Component in Business Continuity

Erwood Group

This proactive approach helps mitigate risks associated with operational disruptions. How RTO Impacts Business Continuity and Recovery 1. Business Impact Analysis (BIA) RTO is a critical component of Business Impact Analysis (BIA). To mitigate this, we perform a Financial Impact Analysis alongside the BIA.