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Risk Management
Attitude The sentiment for BCP should come from top
management.
Executives at all levels must understand necessity
to have BCP.
Criticality Identify the most critical systems and provide
redundancy.
Risk Evaluation What kind of risks are you trying to mitigate
through BCP?
Determine the risks and the probability of such
risks taking place.
Investment Will the investment towards certain systems be
beneficial? E.g. does it make sense to give
importance to redundant power conditioning
equipment in a state where power failures are
unknown?
Downtime What kind of downtime can you afford for
various systems?
Recovery In the advent of disaster, can you recover
operations using printed documents and backup
tapes?
Implementation A steering group has to be formed to take BCP
forward.
This group will include auditors
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