Symantec Business Continuity

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Symantec Business Continuity

• Sanjay Sachdev
• Director of Consulting Services
• Symantec Corporation

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What is a Disaster?When Information is
Unavailable , Business is at Risk
Traditional Risk
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What can cause aDisaster? Natural Events
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What is a Disaster?When Information is
Unavailable , Business is at Risk
Man Made Risk
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What is a Disaster?When Information is
Unsecured or not Accessible , Business is at Risk
Security Risk
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What is a Disaster?When Information is at
Risk, Consequences are Real
Billions in Revenue Loss, Millions in Downtime,
Millions in Data Loss
Consequences
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What is a Disaster?The Impact
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What is Business Continuity?

• Business Continuity (BC) is the business
  objective that deals with a company's ability to
  continue critical business functions, in the face
  of unforeseen events. Process of developing
  advance arrangements and procedures that enable
  an organization to respond to an event in such a
  manner that Critical Business Functions continue
  to function at a predetermined level
• Disaster Recovery (DR) refers to specific tasks
  undertaken in the event of a loss by an
  organisation. Process of developing advance plans
  and procedures enabling an organization to
  respond to a disruptive event and restore the
  Information Technology infrastructure supporting
  Critical Business Functions
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA) identifies and
  prioritises the minimum enterprise business
  continuity requirements to stay in business at
  certain levels of disruption.

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What is Business Continuity?

• Impact of the event on the organisation can be
  reduced by
• Decreasing the time taken to react
• Having a well documented and tested Business
  Continuity Plan

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Six Interdependent Key Constructs
Source Dr David J Smith 2002
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What is Business Continuity?

• Understanding the Components

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Business Continuity Elements

• 1. Project Initiation and Management
• 2. Risk Evaluation and Control
• 3. Business Impact Analysis
• 4. Developing Business Continuity Strategies
• 5. Emergency Response and Operations
• 6. Developing and Implementing Business
  Continuity Plans
• 7. Awareness and Training Programs
• 8. Maintaining and Exercising Business Continuity
  Plans
• 9. Public Relations and Crisis Co-ordination
• 10. Co-ordination with Public Authorities

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What is a Business Continuity Plan?Phases
Associated with Developing a BCP

7 BCP Implementation Phases ......
1. Project Initiation Phase 2. Functional
Requirements Phase (Risk Analysis, BIA) 3. Design
and Development Phase 4. Implementation Phase 5.
Testing and Exersise Phase 6. Maintenance and
Updating Phase 7. Execution Phase
All these phases would be undertaken in an IT
recovery engagement
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