Contingency Planning

Contingency Planning

Introduction

The main objective of plan business continuity is to provide mechanisms that helps in enhancing the capacity for an entity react to disruptions in their services to protect processes which are considered critical to the occurrence of failures or disasters. Broadly speaking, a plan business continuity should be following a series of stages, some of them should be repeated in cyclical time, others be carried out in a continuous. The aim of this redundancy is to ensure that the plan remain in force at the time and is appropriately updated. This will useful for the entity in relevant failures or disasters (Dimattia,2001).

Business Continuity Plan

The loss of reputation and business interruption top the list of the biggest risks for companies. Today, business continuity is not only associated with physical phenomena such as fire or technological failures, but extends to a strategic level in which the reputation and shareholder value are key.

Having a Business Continuity Plan allows companies to ensure business continuity to a crisis, increasing the chances of survival of the company.

Advantages

The Business Continuity Plan is a tool that can prevent or avoid the possible scenarios arising from a crisis situation and minimize the economic, reputational and civil liability arising therefore. It also helps reduce the costs associated with the interruption or avoid contractual penalties for breach of contract as a supplier of goods or services

A Business Continuity Plan aims to maintain these critical services and processes and to reduce the impact of unplanned downtime or disaster within a reasonable time and cost limited.

This service is aimed at obtaining a comprehensive plan to ensure adequate technical and organizational coverage of critical areas of business.

The objectives of the business continuity plan are

Safeguard the interests of its customers and business partners in addition to the image of the organization.

To identify the weaknesses in the systems of the organization

Analyze communications and infrastructure.

To know the logistics to restore services, regardless of the systems

To provide viable alternatives to all critical business processes

Discussion of the alternatives

It is important to define the procedures and action plans in case of possible failure, loss or disaster in the information area, considering that all areas of users who process information through the computer. When a contingency occurs, it is essential to know in detail the reason for the rise and damage, which will recover as quickly as possible the process lost. The development of procedures to be determined as suitable for an emergency should be planned and tested reliably.

The implementing procedures should be mandatory under the responsibility of those charged with conducting them, shall have processes to verify their compliance. These procedures will be involved all the staff of the institution. The procedures for disaster recovery plans must emanate from the highest authority, to ensure their dissemination and strict compliance

Are all activities of planning, preparation, training and implementation of safeguarding activities of the information, ensuring that the recovery process with the least possible cost to our institution (Harney, 2004). 

We list the following general activities:

Establishment of the Plan ...