Business Continuity Management
The activities undertaken to mitigate business down time and loss through a disaster. Includes understanding and planning for vulnerabilities, and the implementation of resumption activities for the relevant business functions.
The Business Continuity Plan |
An agreed sequence of tasks and procedures addressing all local facility business functions, for an interim and resumption period after a disaster is declared.
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Hot Site |
Third party site which is contracted to provide emergency connection to the business infrastructure |
Alternative Site |
Any location which has an existing Infrastructure |
Satellite Site |
An existing location for remote dial in capability to the Infrastructure |
Time Management
An agreed elapsed time for the restoration of time critical functions and services. Defined as a minimum acceptable level for the business.
Time Critical Functions and Services |
Work place, ICT Services and HR services are categorised depending on their time critical recovery as critical, non-critical, or discretionary defining recovery prioritisation and level of support post disaster declaration. |
Critical Functions and Services |
To be defined with the client. |
Recovery Timetable |
The recovery of time sensitive functions and services. |
Critical elapsed time |
Within 96hrs of a disaster declaration. |
Non-critical elapsed time |
Within 4 - 28 days of a disaster declaration.
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Discretionary elapsed time |
Longer than 28 days but not longer than 3 months after a disaster declaration. |
General Terms
These are terms commonly used across the Crisis Management and Business Continuity Management industry.
Refer to BS 25999 – 2, Section 2 – Terms of Definitions for a comprehensive glossary. |
