Business continuity planning : protecting your organization's life / editor, Ken Doughty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doughty, Ken.

Series:

Best practices series (Boca Raton, Fla.)

Best practice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crisis management.

Risk management.

Database management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : Auerbach, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Once considered a luxury, a business continuity plan has become a necessity. Many companies are required to have one by law. Others have implemented them to protect themselves from liability, and some have adopted them after a disaster or after a near miss. Whatever your reason, the right continuity plan is essential to your organization. Business Continuity Planning: Protecting Your Organization's Life explains how to evaluate your current plan for completeness, create an effective plan if you don't have one, and ensure it remains up-to-date.From fires, floods, and power outages to ha

Contents:

Front cover; Contributors; Contents; Introduction: Business Continuity Planning: Protecting Your Organization's Life; Section I: The Need for Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 1. Risk and the Need for Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 2. The Four Phases of Risk Realization; Chapter 3. The Legal Issues of Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 4. Building a Culture for Business Continuity Planning; Section II: Crisis Management; Chapter 5. Identifying a Crisis: A Critical Factor in Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 6. Crisis Management Planning; Chapter 7. Learning from a Crisis

Chapter 8. Plan to Rehearse the Crisis-Before the Crisis Tests the OrganizationChapter 9. The Crisis Management Command Center; Chapter 10. Trauma: The Forgotten Factor; Section III: Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 11. Overview of Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 12. Corporate Contingency Planning; Chapter 13. Business Continuity Planning: Trials and Tribulations; Chapter 14. The Business Impact Assessment Process; Chapter 15. Selecting the Right Business Continuity Planning Strategies; Chapter 16. Business Continuity in the Distributed Environment

Chapter 17. Details Overlooked in Contingency PlansChapter 18. Restoration Component of Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 19. Systems and Communications Security During Recovery and Repair; Section IV: Business Continuity Planning for Communications; Chapter 20. Network Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 21. Business Recovery Planning for Communications; Chapter 22. Documenting a Communications Recovery Plan; Chapter 23. Adding Communications Network Support to Existing Business Continuity Plans; Section V: Maintenance and Testing of Business Continuity Plans

Chapter 24. Strategies for Developing and Testing Business Continuity PlansChapter 25. Maintenance and Update of Business Continuity Plans; Chapter 26. Testing Business Continuity Plans; Chapter 27. Changes that Could Affect the IS Business Continuity Plan; Section VI: Business Continuity Manager's Tool Kit; Chapter 28. Business Continuity Planning Tools and Management Options; Chapter 29. Choosing a Hot-Site Vendor; Chapter 30. A Proactive Approach to Improving the IS Business Continuity Plan; Chapter 31. Reengineering the Business Continuity Planning Process

Chapter 32. Backup: The Forgotten EssentialSection VII: Auditor's Perspecive of Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 33. Using Audit Resources in IT Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 34. How IS Auditors Can Enhance Business Continuity Planning; Chapter 35. Auditing Contingency and Business Continuity Planning; Index; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-11472-9

1-281-12787-6

9786611127879

0-203-97302-X

0-8493-9033-8

9780429114724

OCLC:

185027200