Practical guide to business continuity assurance / Andrew McCrackan.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Standards and Literature -- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery -- Gap Analysis -- Integration of the Organization -- Business and IT -- Health and Safety -- Security -- Terrorism -- Finance and Motivation -- Insuring for Disaster -- Approach -- Key Components of Operation -- Events and Event Responses -- Facets of Business Continuity -- Legacy Approach -- Continuity Across the Organization -- Methodology -- Offensive Stream -- Defensive Stream -- The Maturity Model -- Achievement and Quality Assurance -- Knowledge Transfer and Resource Management -- Team Blending -- The Apprenticeship Method -- Communication -- Problem Solving and Root Cause -- Level 1: Rationalization -- Organizational Positioning -- Team Structure -- Roles and Responsibilities -- Resourcing -- Management Tools -- Security and Safety -- Level 2: Risk Reduction -- Vulnerability Analysis -- Corrective and Preventative Action -- Risk Identification -- Risk Mitigation -- Security and Safety -- Level 3: Rating -- Business Impact Assessment -- Criticality Rating -- Quantitative Analysis -- Risk Rating -- Security and Safety -- Level 4: Rigor -- Change and Configuration Management -- Configuration or Change? -- Hardware Versus Software Configuration Management -- When Do We Need Configuration Management? -- Key Benefits of Configuration Management -- Functional Areas of Configuration Management -- Contingency Planning -- Crisis Management -- Design Assurance -- Backup and Tape Management -- Security and Safety -- Resource Vetting.

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Here's a groundbreaking book that offers you a powerful new methodology for business continuity management - an approach designed to bind and enhance risk management, disaster prevention, and disaster recovery efforts to an optimum level of efficiency. This unique resource features a start-to-finish quantitative framework to assess, improve, and benchmark your organization's business continuity capabilities in response to potential terrorist acts, hackers, natural disasters, and other business-threatening events or errors. The book's seven-level capability model guides you through every step i.

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