business impact analysis Flashcards
What is business continuity (BC)?
Processes and procedures used to make sure tat regular business opeartions continue during a disaster.
What is Disaster recovery:?
Designed to prevent or minimize data loss and business disruption resulting from catastrophic events
What is business continutity planning?
Ensures that all areas will be able to maintain essential operations or be abke to resume them as quickly as possible in the event of a crisis or emergency
What is disaster recvery planning ( DP)?
The subset of BCP that focuses of recovering IT infrastructure and systems
What is BIA business impact analyisis?
Look at all the infrastructure and the services that are critical to the organization to operate and asses the risk or damage the company would take if they were disrupted
Goals:
- Determine criticality
- Estimate Maximum downtime
- Evaluate Internal/External resource requirements
What is the BIA process?
Step 1: Gather requirements and information
Step 2: Vulnerability assessment
Step 3: Risk Analysis
Quantitative -ALE = SLE * ARO ===> ALE = (AV*EF) * ARO
Qualitative
Step 4: Communicate results
What is RPO?
Recovery point objective: The data being backed up during normal operations for disaster recovery and the amount of data that is going to backed up over certain amount of time
What is a RTO?
The amount if time according to the BRC to restore the infrastructure that were affected.
What is WRT?
Work recovery time is the additional time it takes to input and configure the data to recover the business to operation
What is MAD?
Maximum Available downtime = RTO + WRT
What is MTTR?
the average time to repair a critical device
What is MTBF?
THe vendor will give you average time a critical device fails during its life span
What is SPOF?
Where we have only one redundancy for a critial device than this will be the single point of failure
What are the mission essential functions
The limited set of functions that must be continued throughout or resumed rapidly after a disruption of normal activites
