Practical Guide to Business Continuity Assurance

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• Publisher: Artech House
• Year: 2004
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781580539289
• Topic: Business
• Index: Business

Here's a groundbreaking book that offers you a powerful new methodology for business continuity management - an approach designed to bind and enhance risk management, disaster prevention, and disaster recovery efforts to an optimum level of efficiency. This unique resource features a start-to-finish quantitative framework to assess, improve, and benchmark your organization's business continuity capabilities in response to potential terrorist acts, hackers, natural disasters, and other business-threatening events or errors. The book's seven-level capability model guides you through every step in implementing preventive and defensive measures to reduce the risk of such events. From vulnerability analysis, risk rating, and crisis management to server consolidation, data redundancy, and worker safety, the book provides both strategic and practical solutions to the many continuity challenges you may encounter in various heightened-risk scenarios.

Table of contents

• Contents
• 1 Introduction 1
• 2 Approach 19
• 3 Methodology 31
• 4 Level 1: Rationalization 47
• 5 Level 2: Risk Reduction 61
• 6 Level 3: Rating 73
• 7 Level 4: Rigor 89
• 8 Level 5: Robustness 109
• 9 Level 6: Resilience 123
• 10 Level 7: Recovery 137
• 11 Continuity Assurance Achievement Rating (CAAR) 155
• 12 Quality Assurance 167
• 13 Outsourcing and Commercial Management 175
• 14 Case Studies 187
• 15 Summary 197
• Acronyms and Abbreviations 199
• About the Author 203
• Index