Glossary Of Terms Flashcards
Define: “activity or activities”.
“One or more tasks undertaken by, or for an organization, that produces or supports the delivery of one or more products and services.”
Define: “Analysis (PP3)”.
”Analysis is the Professional Practice within the business continuity management lifecycle that reviews and assesses an organization to identify its objectives, how it functions and the constraints of its operating environment.”
Define: “audit”.
”A systematic, independent and documented process for obtaining audit evidence and evaluating it objectively to determine the extent to which the audit criteria are fulfilled.”
Define: “Business Continuity (BC)”.
“The capability of the organization to continue delivery of products or services at acceptable predefined levels following disruptive incident.”
Define: “business continuity management”.
“A holistic management process that identifies potential threats to an organization and the impacts to business operations those threats, if realized, might cause, and which provides a framework for building organizational resilience with the capability of an effective response that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value-creating activities.”
Define: “Business Continuity Management (BCM) Lifecycle”.
“The ongoing cycle of activities of the business continuity programme, that build organizational resilience.”
Define: “Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)”.
“Part of the overall management system that establishes, implements, operates, monitors, reviews, maintains and improves business continuity.”
Define: “Business Continuity Plan (BCP)”.
“Documented procedures that guide organizations to respond, recover, resume, and restore to a predefined level of operation following disruption.”
Define: “business continuity programme”.
“The ongoing management and governance process supported by top management and appropriately resourced to implement and maintain business continuity management.”
Define: “business continuity requirements”.
“The time frames and resources, and capabilities necessary to continue to deliver the prioritised products, services, processes, and activities following a disruption.”
Define: “Business Impact Analysis (BIA)”.
“The process of analysing activities and the effect that a business disruption might have upon them.”
Define: “competence”.
“The ability to apply knowledge and skills to achieve intended results.”
Define: “continual improvement”.
“A recurring activity to enhance performance.”
Define: “crisis”.
“A situation with a high level of uncertainty that disrupts the core activities and/or credibility of an organization and requires urgent action.”
Define: “Design (PP4)”.
“A situation with a high level of uncertainty that disrupts the core activities and/or credibility of an organization and requires urgent action.”
Define: “Embedding (PP2)”.
“Embedding is the Professional Practice that defines how to integrate business continuity awareness and practice into business as usual activities.”
Define: “exercise”.
“The process to train for, assess, practice, and improve performance in an organization.”
Define: “Implementation (PP5)”.
“Implementation is the Professional Practice within the business continuity management lifecycle that implements the solutions agreed in the Design stage. It also includes developing the business continuity plans and a response structure.”
Define: “incident”.
“A situation that might be, or could lead to, a disruption, loss, emergency or crisis.”
Define: “interested party”.
“A person or organization that can affect, be affected by, or perceive themselves to be affected by a decision or activity.:
Define: “invocation”.
“The act of declaring that an organization’s business continuity arrangements need to be put into effect in order to continue delivery of key products or services.”
Define: “Maximum Acceptable Outage (MAO)”.
“The time it would take for adverse impacts, which might arise as a result of not providing a product/service or performing an activity, to become unacceptable. See also MTPD.”
“Define: Maximum Tolerable Period of Disruption (MTPD)”.
“The time it would take for adverse impacts, which might arise as a result of not providing a product/service or performing an activity, to become unacceptable. See also MAO.”
Define: “Minimum Business Continuity Objective (MBCO)”.
“The minimum level of services and/or products that is acceptable to the organization to achieve its business objectives during a disruption.”
Define: “organization”.
“The person or group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities and relationships to achieve its objectives.”
Define: “organisational resilience”.
“The ability of an organization to absorb and adapt in a changing environment.”
Define: “organisational culture”.
“The values, attitudes and behaviour of an organization that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment in which it operates.”
Define: “personnel”.
“People working for and under the control of the organization.”
Define: “policy”.
The business continuity policy provides the intentions and direction of an organization as formally expressed by its top management.
Define: “Policy and Programme Management (PP1)”.
“Policy and Programme management is the Professional Practice that establishes the organization’s policy relating to business continuity and defines how the policy should be implemented throughout the business continuity programme.”
Define: “prioritised activities”.
“The activities to which priority must be given following an incident in order to mitigate impacts.”
Define: “process”.
“A set of interrelated or interacting activities which transforms inputs into outputs.”
Define: “products and services”.
“Beneficial outcomes provided by an organization to its customers, recipients and interested parties.”
Define: “Recovery Point Objective (RPO)”.
“The point to which information used by an activity must be restored to enable the activity to operate on resumption.”
