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9781931332217
PREFACE by Melvyn Musson, FBCI, CBCP, CISSP
PREFACE by Philip J. Rothstein, FBCI
PREFACE by Andrew Hiles, FBCI
INTRODUCTION
1 WHY SHOULD YOUR BUSINESS PREPARE FOR A DISASTER?
What Disaster Might Hit You?
It's Too Much Work! Why Shouldn't We Just Take the Risk?
Legal Reasons for Having a Plan
Statutory Example
Determining Liability
2 GETTING STARTED
Basic Considerations
An Alternate Business Location
Vital Records
Key People
A Plan
How Many Plans?
Types of Plans
The Planning Steps You Will Take with this Book
Step 1 - Writing the Purpose, Objectives, Scope and Assumptions
Purpose of the Plan - Sample Text
Plan Objectives - Guidelines
Scope of the Plan - Guidelines
Planning Assumptions- Guidelines
Step 2 - The Plan Coordinator and Development Team: Job Descriptions
The Plan Development Team
Step 3 - Assigning Action Items, Coordination of Responsibilities and Timeframes
3 ITS TIME TO ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AND TO ASSESS YOUR CURRENT RISK
Step 4 - Where Do You Stand Right Now?
Begin by Reviewing Internal Plans and Policies
Meet with Outside Groups
Identify Codes and Regulations
Identify Critical Products, Services and Operations
Identify Your Internal Resources and Capabilities
Identify External Resources
Conduct an Insurance Review
Assess Your Vulnerability
Begin by Listing Potential Threats
Estimate Probability
Assess the Potential Human Impact
Assess the PotentialProperty Impact
Assess the Potential Business Impact
Assess Internal and External Resources
Add the Columns
Hazard-Specific Information
Hazardous Materials Incidents
Floods and Flash Floods
Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Severe Winter Storms
Earthquakes
Technological Emergencies
Analyzing the Risk Assessment
Step 5 - Doing Your Business Impact Analysis
Identifying Critical Systems, Applications and Vital Records
Using Your Business Impact Analysis
What's Your Staying Power?
Timing Your Defense
What Immediate Resources Do You Need?
Develop Recovery Priorities
Identify Preventive Controls
Develop Technical Recovery Strategies
Step 6 - Selecting Your Recovery Teams
Roles and Responsibilities
Team Leaders
Team Members
Step 7 - Developing Your Recovery Strategies and Action Plans
Recovery Strategy Overview
Sample Action Plan Task List
4 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Step 8 - Documenting Your Business Continuity Plan
Background Information
Action Plan
Plan Appendices
Step 9 - Testing Your Plan
Preparation of Testing Procedures
Checklist Testing
Non-Business-Interruption Test
Parallel Testing
Business Interruption Testing
Frequency of Test
Evaluating Your Test Results
The Checklist Worksheet
The Test Evaluation Form
Step 10 - Distributing Your Plan
5 CONGRATULATIONS! - BUT DON'T LET IT COLLECT DUST
Step 11 - Maintaining Your Plan
APPENDIX A SAMPLE RISK ASSESSMENT
APPENDIX B RISK ANALYSIS CHECKLIST
APPENDIX C GUIDELINES FOR DEVELOPING YOUR DATA SHEETS
APPENDIX D BUSINESS CONTINUITY GLOSSARY
APPENDIX E SELECTED BUSINESS CONTINUITY ARTICLES
Pitching Preparedness
Why Assess? A Case Study
Slow-Motion Disaster
Managing Management: A Case Study
"Almost" Disasters
REFERENCES
Business Continuity Planning: A Step-By-Step Guide with Planning Forms, 3rd Edition / Edition 3 available in Paperback, eBook
Business Continuity Planning: A Step-By-Step Guide with Planning Forms, 3rd Edition / Edition 3
by Kenneth L Fulmer, Philip Jan Rothstein
Kenneth L Fulmer
- ISBN-10:
- 1931332215
- ISBN-13:
- 9781931332217
- Pub. Date:
- 10/30/2004
- Publisher:
- Rothstein Publishing
- ISBN-10:
- 1931332215
- ISBN-13:
- 9781931332217
- Pub. Date:
- 10/30/2004
- Publisher:
- Rothstein Publishing
Business Continuity Planning: A Step-By-Step Guide with Planning Forms, 3rd Edition / Edition 3
by Kenneth L Fulmer, Philip Jan Rothstein
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Overview
Perfect Beginner's Guide in Workbook Format
with Worksheets, Forms, Checklists, Tables and Free Download of Sample Plans and Templates
This easy, how-to-do-it introduction to Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is designed in a workbook format with lots of reproducible worksheets, forms, tables, checklists and action items. It's particularly useful for managers in single-location companies with up to 250 employees and for an office environment where information technology is critical to operations.
Just follow the steps and use some of the templates and you'll have a realistic plan in only a few days. The process will neither overwhelm you nor break the bank, and it will get your business continuity program up and running surprisingly fast and with a lot less effort than you expect.
The accompanying free download provides numerous handy templates and sample forms, including a vulnerability worksheet; Business Impact Assessment (BIA) sample questionnaire for departments; cumulative outage costs worksheet; emergency response team assignments and call sheet; vendor call sheet; sample test plan and maintenance plan, etc. There are also checklists/ corrective action forms for various natural hazards, including, fires, floods, winter storms, hurricanes, earthquakes and tornadoes, along with an emergency response plan (ERP) checklist. Checklists for special hazards include those for power outages, boiler failures, bomb threats, hazardous material spills, and civil unrest, along with a checklist for vital records storage. The BCP resources include information about federal and state agencies, such as FEMA; bibliographies; articles and papers; and links to a variety of related Web sites.
Endorsed by both the Business Continuity Institute and Disaster Recovery Institute International, this workbook includes these helpful features:
Worksheets in both the book and free download in Microsoft Word that provide step-by step practice in developing your own business continuity plan
Chapter overviews and objectives
Appendices with sample risk assessment and risk analysis checklists
Glossary with 120 business continuity terms
Accompanying free download with numerous templates and forms; bibliographies; articles and papers; links to a variety of related Web sites
Author who is a veteran practitioner of business continuity and disaster recovery for 20+ years
Ideal for senior undergraduate, MBA, certificate, and corporate training programs
"In more than 30 years as a business continuity practitioner, I have seen many small and medium-size businesses pay the penalty for lack of preparedness. Often, overwhelmed by the jargon employed by many practitioners and the mistaken concepts that business continuity is too costly, that it is only for the 'big boys,' and that they do not have the resources or knowledge base, they choose to take the risk instead. For many, it is an unfortunate choice because much can be done with reasonable commitment to avoid business disruptions or mitigate the impact for those that are unavoidable.... In this excellent primer, Mr. Fulmer sets out a simple, concise, and, most of all, logical roadmap both for developing the justification for a business continuity/disaster recovery program as well as for developing and maintaining the resultant plan."
--Larry Kalmis, FBCI, Project Executive, Virtual Corporation
Chairman, Business Continuity Institute
with Worksheets, Forms, Checklists, Tables and Free Download of Sample Plans and Templates
This easy, how-to-do-it introduction to Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is designed in a workbook format with lots of reproducible worksheets, forms, tables, checklists and action items. It's particularly useful for managers in single-location companies with up to 250 employees and for an office environment where information technology is critical to operations.
Just follow the steps and use some of the templates and you'll have a realistic plan in only a few days. The process will neither overwhelm you nor break the bank, and it will get your business continuity program up and running surprisingly fast and with a lot less effort than you expect.
The accompanying free download provides numerous handy templates and sample forms, including a vulnerability worksheet; Business Impact Assessment (BIA) sample questionnaire for departments; cumulative outage costs worksheet; emergency response team assignments and call sheet; vendor call sheet; sample test plan and maintenance plan, etc. There are also checklists/ corrective action forms for various natural hazards, including, fires, floods, winter storms, hurricanes, earthquakes and tornadoes, along with an emergency response plan (ERP) checklist. Checklists for special hazards include those for power outages, boiler failures, bomb threats, hazardous material spills, and civil unrest, along with a checklist for vital records storage. The BCP resources include information about federal and state agencies, such as FEMA; bibliographies; articles and papers; and links to a variety of related Web sites.
Endorsed by both the Business Continuity Institute and Disaster Recovery Institute International, this workbook includes these helpful features:
"In more than 30 years as a business continuity practitioner, I have seen many small and medium-size businesses pay the penalty for lack of preparedness. Often, overwhelmed by the jargon employed by many practitioners and the mistaken concepts that business continuity is too costly, that it is only for the 'big boys,' and that they do not have the resources or knowledge base, they choose to take the risk instead. For many, it is an unfortunate choice because much can be done with reasonable commitment to avoid business disruptions or mitigate the impact for those that are unavoidable.... In this excellent primer, Mr. Fulmer sets out a simple, concise, and, most of all, logical roadmap both for developing the justification for a business continuity/disaster recovery program as well as for developing and maintaining the resultant plan."
--Larry Kalmis, FBCI, Project Executive, Virtual Corporation
Chairman, Business Continuity Institute
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781931332217 |
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Publisher: | Rothstein Publishing |
Publication date: | 10/30/2004 |
Series: | Business Continuity Management Ser. |
Edition description: | 3rd Enlarged ed. |
Pages: | 173 |
Product dimensions: | 8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.41(d) |
About the Author
KENNETH L. FULMER, CBCP, has been involved in the Business Continuity Planning field for over 14 years. He has been a member of the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRII, www.drii.org) since 1991 and a Certified Business Continuity Planner since 1992. Mr. Fulmer's career has spanned 27 years in the computer-related industry and has published, trained and spoken on business continuity issues.
Ken began his career as a public school teacher in Silver Spring, MD, and has since been a Bank Officer for Imperial Bancorp; now Comerica Bancorp, New York, and a National Account Executive with Digital Equipment Corporation; now Hewlett Packard.
Ken's Third Edition of Business Continuity Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide with Planning Forms on CD-ROM builds upon the foundation of the two previous, highly successful editions.
Ken began his career as a public school teacher in Silver Spring, MD, and has since been a Bank Officer for Imperial Bancorp; now Comerica Bancorp, New York, and a National Account Executive with Digital Equipment Corporation; now Hewlett Packard.
Ken's Third Edition of Business Continuity Planning: A Step-by-Step Guide with Planning Forms on CD-ROM builds upon the foundation of the two previous, highly successful editions.
Table of Contents
PREFACE by Melvyn Musson, FBCI, CBCP, CISSP
PREFACE by Philip J. Rothstein, FBCI
PREFACE by Andrew Hiles, FBCI
INTRODUCTION
1 WHY SHOULD YOUR BUSINESS PREPARE FOR A DISASTER?
What Disaster Might Hit You?
It's Too Much Work! Why Shouldn't We Just Take the Risk?
Legal Reasons for Having a Plan
Statutory Example
Determining Liability
2 GETTING STARTED
Basic Considerations
An Alternate Business Location
Vital Records
Key People
A Plan
How Many Plans?
Types of Plans
The Planning Steps You Will Take with this Book
Step 1 - Writing the Purpose, Objectives, Scope and Assumptions
Purpose of the Plan - Sample Text
Plan Objectives - Guidelines
Scope of the Plan - Guidelines
Planning Assumptions- Guidelines
Step 2 - The Plan Coordinator and Development Team: Job Descriptions
The Plan Development Team
Step 3 - Assigning Action Items, Coordination of Responsibilities and Timeframes
3 ITS TIME TO ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES AND TO ASSESS YOUR CURRENT RISK
Step 4 - Where Do You Stand Right Now?
Begin by Reviewing Internal Plans and Policies
Meet with Outside Groups
Identify Codes and Regulations
Identify Critical Products, Services and Operations
Identify Your Internal Resources and Capabilities
Identify External Resources
Conduct an Insurance Review
Assess Your Vulnerability
Begin by Listing Potential Threats
Estimate Probability
Assess the Potential Human Impact
Assess the PotentialProperty Impact
Assess the Potential Business Impact
Assess Internal and External Resources
Add the Columns
Hazard-Specific Information
Hazardous Materials Incidents
Floods and Flash Floods
Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Severe Winter Storms
Earthquakes
Technological Emergencies
Analyzing the Risk Assessment
Step 5 - Doing Your Business Impact Analysis
Identifying Critical Systems, Applications and Vital Records
Using Your Business Impact Analysis
What's Your Staying Power?
Timing Your Defense
What Immediate Resources Do You Need?
Develop Recovery Priorities
Identify Preventive Controls
Develop Technical Recovery Strategies
Step 6 - Selecting Your Recovery Teams
Roles and Responsibilities
Team Leaders
Team Members
Step 7 - Developing Your Recovery Strategies and Action Plans
Recovery Strategy Overview
Sample Action Plan Task List
4 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Step 8 - Documenting Your Business Continuity Plan
Background Information
Action Plan
Plan Appendices
Step 9 - Testing Your Plan
Preparation of Testing Procedures
Checklist Testing
Non-Business-Interruption Test
Parallel Testing
Business Interruption Testing
Frequency of Test
Evaluating Your Test Results
The Checklist Worksheet
The Test Evaluation Form
Step 10 - Distributing Your Plan
5 CONGRATULATIONS! - BUT DON'T LET IT COLLECT DUST
Step 11 - Maintaining Your Plan
APPENDIX A SAMPLE RISK ASSESSMENT
APPENDIX B RISK ANALYSIS CHECKLIST
APPENDIX C GUIDELINES FOR DEVELOPING YOUR DATA SHEETS
APPENDIX D BUSINESS CONTINUITY GLOSSARY
APPENDIX E SELECTED BUSINESS CONTINUITY ARTICLES
Pitching Preparedness
Why Assess? A Case Study
Slow-Motion Disaster
Managing Management: A Case Study
"Almost" Disasters
REFERENCES
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