Practical Guide to Business Continuity Assurance.

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.

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Year of publication:	2004
Authors:	McCrackan, Andrew
Publisher:	Norwood : Artech House
Subject:	Qualitätsmanagement \| Quality management \| Risikomanagement \| Risk management
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	1 online resource (225 pages)
Series:	Artech House technology management and professional development library
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. Contents; 1 Introduction 1; 1.1 Purpose and Scope 2; 1.2 How to use This Book 3; 1.3 Current Standards and Literature 3; 1.4 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery 4; 1.5 Gap Analysis 6; 1.6 Integration aof the Organization 7; 1.7 Business and IT 7; 1.8 Health and Safety 10; 1.9 Security 12; 1.10 Terrorism 13; 1.11 Finance and Motivation; 1.12 Insuring for Disaster; 2 Approach 19; 2.1 Key Components of Operation 20; 2.2 Events and Event Responses; 2.3 Facets of Business Continuity; 2.4 Legacy Approach; 2.5 Continuity; 3 Methodology 31; 3.1 Overview; 3.2 Offensive Stream 3.3 Defensive Stream3.4 The Maturity Model; 3.5 Achievement and Quality Assurance; 3.6 Knowledge Transfer and Resource Management; 3.7 Communication; 3.8 Problem Solving and Root Cause; 4 Level 1: Rationalization 47; 4.1 Organizational Positioning 48; 4.2 Team Structure 50; 4.3 Roles and Responsibilities 54; 4.4 Resourcing 55; 4.5 Management Tools 57; 4.6 Security and Safety 58; 4.7 Level 1 Performance Indicators 58; 5 Level 2: Risk Reduction 61; 5.1 Vulnerability Analysis 62; 5.2 Corrective and Preventative Action 63; 5.3 Risk Identification 64; 5.4 Risk Mitigation 66 5.5 Security and Safety 685.6 Level 2 Performance Indicators 71; 6 Level 3: Rating 73; 6.1 Business Impact Assessment 74; 6.2 Criticality Rating 78; 6.3 Quantitative Analysis 81; 6.4 Risk Rating 86; 6.5 Security and Safety 87; 6.6 Level 3 Performance Indicators 88; 7 Level 4: Rigor 89; 7.1 Change and Configuration Management 91; 7.2 Contingency Planning 97; 7.3 Crisis Management 100; 7.4 Design Assurance 100; 7.5 Backup and Tape Management 101; 7.6 Security and Safety 103; 7.7 Level 4 Performance Indicators 107; 8 Level 5: Robustness 109; 8.1 Server Consolidation 110 8.2 Storage Area Network (SAN) 1118.3 Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) 112; 8.4 Common Operating Environment (COE) 114; 8.5 Distributed Systems 115; 8.6 Renewal 116; 8.7 Security and Safety 117; 8.8 Level 5 Performance Indicators 119; 9 Level 6: Resilience 123; 9.1 Capability Configuration 124; 9.2 Replication 125; 9.3 Data Integrity 126; 9.4 Data Redundancy 128; 9.5 Geographic Diversity 129; 9.6 People and Process 131; 9.7 Associated Benefits 132; 9.8 Security and Safety 133; 9.9 Level 6 Performance Indicators 133; 10 Level 7: Recovery 137; 10.1 Capability Configuration 138 10.2 Recovery Profiling 13910.3 Fail-Over Scenarios 140; 10.4 Disaster Declaration 142; 10.5 Fail Back 143; 10.6 Environment Management 144; 10.7 License Management 146; 10.8 Location 147; 10.9 Workplace Recovery 148; 10.10 Testing 149; 10.11 Security and Safety 151; 10.12 Level 7 Performance Indicators 151; 11 Continuity Assurance Achievement Rating (CAAR) 155; 11.1 Rating Matrix 155; 11.2 Capability Scoring 164; 11.3 Maturity Progression 164; 11.4 Audit 165; 12 Quality Assurance 167; 12.1 Fundamental Concepts 167; 12.2 Framework 168; 12.3 Purpose and Strategy 168; 12.4 Quality Balance 171 12.5 Approach 172
ISBN:	978-1-58053-928-9 ; 1-58053-928-9 ; 1-58053-927-0 ; 978-1-58053-927-2
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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