Business Continuity Planning: Protecting Your Organization's Life / Edition 1

by Ken Doughty

Overview

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 hackers and software problems, companies need to protect against a variety of threats. Business Continuity Planning: Protecting Your Organization's Life takes a best practices approach to provide a comprehensive continuity solution. It details how to build a plan to handle business disruptions, keep vital operations up and running, and prevent losses that occur when business is crippled or security is compromised.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780849309076
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/11/2000
Series:	Best Practices
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

The Need for Business Continuity Planning. Crisis Management. Business Continuity Planning. Business Continuity Planning for Communications. Maintenance and Testing of Business Continuity Plans. Business Continuity Manager's Tool Kit. Auditor's Perspective of Business Continuity Planning.

Editorial Reviews

Provides guidance for companies developing business resumption, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans that prepare the organization for a disaster<-->natural or computer-related<-->and for return to business-as-usual operations. The 35 chapters detail how to build a plan to handle disruptions in business, keep vital operations up and running, and prevent losses that occur when productivity is crippled or security is compromised. Topics include crisis management, business continuity in the distributed computer environment, planning for communications, and testing continuity plans. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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