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<p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:24px"><strong>Business Impact Analysis Standard Requirements Toolkit</strong></span></span><br />
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:20px">Crucial Requirements:</span></span></p>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">The Business Impact analysis is performed as a process-based methodology. The goal is to identify the most important processes that are critical for survival. The problem with such a methodology is the time and resources needed for larger corporations because of their immense business complexity. Obviously, a thorough analysis of each process and all assets would provide a robust foundation for when performing pre-cautionary measures in order to protect the processes and the assets. Still, it would require a large amount of time and resources, and ultimately it is money companies want to save. Why spend money on pre-cautionary measures if they cost more to implement than the actual potential damage or disruptive event threatening the business?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">Disasters can result in enormous losses with respect to financials, investor confidence, and corporate image. These losses and legal challenges can have a small, short term impact but more often than not, they have a significant, long term impact, and in some cases imperil the existence of the company. So there is simply a need to implement control mechanisms to proactively mitigate the risks and prepare for the worst to survive to some level if something happens, but how can we do this to meet stakeholders’ expectations?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">A business plan for the future rests on a thorough understanding of where you are now as an organization. Carrying out a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) or a PESTEL analysis (Political, Economic, Social-cultural, Technological, Environmental and Legal) are useful tools to help you do this. Consider any strength you can build upon and any weaknesses you need to address. What external influences are impacting upon your organization (changes in the law, government policy, users)?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">At the same time that you are conducting workshops it is important to informally assess the risks and threats that the business locations are exposed to. This will enable you to measure the risks against the impacts to determine where the company should focus time, effort and investment. Isn’t this really the goal of the BIA: to determine where and how the company ought to spend the money it has budgeted for business continuity?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">You need to decide how you rate priorities in your organization and what each category means. This will be different for all organizations. You might choose to have High Medium Low or a numbering system e.g. 1-4. Priority in the BIA sense means: in the event of a disruption, which services need to be prioritised for recovery and which could wait?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">Taking into account the above information, you now need to identify who you depend upon to deliver your service functions (dependencies) and also who relies on your function being delivered successfully (dependents). This enables contingency arrangements to be set up as appropriate e.g. who needs to be informed if the functions are not available?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">With respect to loss of confidentiality or loss of integrity. For example, what is the estimated damage if an employee steals information and starts a competing company or what kind of damage would occur if data held in by some information resource were to be corrupt and thus would provide false information as a basis for important decisions?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">Do you identify maximum allowable downtime for critical business functions, acceptable levels of data loss and backlogged transactions, RTOs, RPOs, recovery of the critical path (i.e., business processes or systems that should receive the highest priority), and the costs associated with downtime? Are the approved thresholds appropriate?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:15px">Score the impact over various timeframes (i.e. minutes, hours, days, weeks) using the severity level rating 1 to 5 taking into consideration the impact categories. Answer the question, “What would the severity level rating be if this activity was disrupted for minutes, hours, days and weeks?</span></span><br />
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