Typical Business Continuity Plan Content
BUSINESS CONTINUITY TOOLKIT
4. BUSINESS CONTINUITY STRATEGIES
EXAMPLES
PART 1 - STRATEGIES
The following strategies may have already been decided centrally and therefore may not be a decision that your team will need to take. However, they are included here for information.
|Diverse sites |The undertaking of activities at two or more geographically diverse sites so that operations can|
| |be switched from one to another. Both sites are live. |
| |This has potential to provide high resilience (depending on the threat) but can be very costly |
| |(unless the sites already exist). |
| |This will not protect against incidents that cannot be locally contained (eg pandemic/computer |
| |virus) |
| |Each site needs to be able to carry some/all of the load of the other site. |
|Replication/standby facilities |This involves replicating your capability to undertake all activities at another site. This |
| |site is not live. It is activated in an incident and staff are moved to this replica site. |
| |This may be suitable if it is acceptable for your activity to stop for a few hours. |
| |This relies on staff being able and willing to move to the replica site. |
|Subcontracting work |Contracting a third party to perform an activity (or set of activities) for you is a possible |
| |strategy. If your activity needs to continue within a day then any subcontracting arrangements |
| |will need to be set up in advance. |
|Post-incident acquisition |This may be possible if the resources you require are not specialist and may be easily available|
| |to purchase in the event of an incident. |
| |This may also be a suitable strategy if it is acceptable for your activity to be disrupted for a|
| |relatively long period of time. |
|Insurance |It is possible to insure against some losses, however, this will not protect you against any |
| |loss of reputation |
|Do nothing |This may be a suitable strategy if the Executive Board have understood and owned the risk of |
| |having no strategy in place or if it is acceptable for the activity to be stopped for a long |
| |period of time. |
PART 2 - TACTICS
Possible areas for consideration are:
• Storing information offsite
• Holding older equipment as spares
• Identifying alternative suppliers
• Multi-skill training of individuals
• Succession planning
• Servers stored in two different locations
• Ensuring appropriate equipment is on Uninterruptible Power Supply
• A back up office to work from in the event that your normal work area is not available
• Arrangements to work from home/remote access etc
• Resilient telecommunications
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