Business Continuity Planning (Doughty)

BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING:
PROTECTING YOUR ORGANIZATION'S LIFE
Ken Doughty, Editor

“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
disruptions in
business, keep vital operations up and running, and prevent losses that occur
when
productivity is crippled or security is compromised. The book explains how to
evaluate a
current plan for completeness and how to monitor and maintain it to ensure it
remains
up-to-date.”

- Explains how to analyze the risk of various disasters occurring and the
effect they
would
have on the business
- Provides detailed instructions on building, testing, maintaining, and
updating a
business
continuity plan
- Includes descriptions of how to recover vital records
- Explains dealing with emotional trauma after a disaster
- Covers planning for crisis management and operations, data center, and
communications recovery

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CONTENTS

Introduction

SECTION I THE NEED FOR BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING .

1 Risk and the Need for Business Continuity Planning
Denise Johnson McManus and Houston H. Carr
2 The Four Phases of Risk Realization
Andrew Blades
3 The Legal Issues of Business Continuity Planning
Tari Schreider
4 Building a Culture for Business Continuity Planning
Merida L. Johns

SECTION II CRISIS MANAGEMENT

5 Identifying a Crisis: A Critical Factor in Business Continuity Planning
Steve York
6 Crisis Management Planning
Mark B. Desman
7 Learning from a Crisis
Andrew Blades
8 Plan to Rehearse the Crisis - Before the Crisis Tests the Organization
Steve York and Angus Graham
9 The Crisis Management Command Center
Mark B. Desman
10 Trauma: The Forgotten Factor
Steve Watt and David Ball

SECTION III BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING

11 Overview of Business Continuity Planning
Sally Meglathery
12 Corporate Contingency Planning
Michael D. Cannon
13 Business Continuity Planning: Trials and Tribulations
Steve Watts
14 The Business Impact Assessment Process
Carl B. Jackson
15 Selecting the Right Business Continuity Planning Strategies
Ken Doughty
16 Business Continuity in the Distributed Environment
Steven P. Craig
17 Details Overlooked in Contingency Plans
Jonathan R. King
18 Restoration Component of Business Continuity Planning
John Dorf and Marty Johnson
19 Systems and Communications Security during Recovery and Repair
C. Warren Axelrod

SECTION IV BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING FOR COMMUNICATIONS

20 Network Business Continuity Planning
Nathan J. Muller
21 Business Recovery Planning for Communications
Leo A. Wrobel
22 Documenting a Communications Recovery Plan
Leo A. Wrobel
23 Adding Communications Network Support to Existing Business Continuity
Plans
Leo A. Wrobel

SECTION V MAINTENANCE AND TESTING OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY
PLANS

24 Strategies for Developing and Testing Business Continuity Plans
Kenneth A. Smith
25 Maintenance and Update of Business Continuity Plans
Ken Doughty
26 Testing Business Continuity Plans
Leo A. Wrobel
27 Changes that Could Affect the IS Business Continuity Plan
JoAnn Bozarth and Belden Menkus

SECTION VI BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGER'S TOOL KIT

28 Business Continuity Planning Tools and Management Options
Jon William Toigo
29 Choosing a Hot-Site Vendor
Philip Jan Rothstein
30 A Proactive Approach to Improving the IS Business Continuity Plan
Belden Menkus
31 Reengineering the Business Continuity Planning Process
Carl B. Jackson
32 Backup: The Forgotten Essential
Bruce Edwards

SECTION VII AUDITOR'S PERSPECTIVE OF BUSINESS CONTINUITY
PLANNING

33 Using Audit Resources in IT Business Continuity Planning
JoAna Bozarth and Belden Menkus
34 How IS Auditors Can Enhance Business Continuity Planning
Douglas B. Hoyt
35 Auditing Contingency and Business Continuity Planning
Fred Gallegos and Karen Seketa

INDEX

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2000, 400 pages. Order #DR464.
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