Validating Your Business Continuity Plan
Ensuring your BCP actually works
Published on 19. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-84928-773-9 (ISBN)
Description
Business continuity planning is a process of continual improvement, not a matter of writing a plan and then putting your feet up. Attempting to validate every aspect of your plan, however - particularly in a live rehearsal situation - could create a disaster of your own making.Validating Your Business Continuity Plan examines the three essential components of validating a business continuity plan - exercising, maintenance and review - and outlines a controlled and systematic approach to BCP validation while considering each component, covering methods and techniques such as table-top reviews, workshops and live rehearsals.
The book also takes account of industry standards and guidelines to help steer the reader through the validation process, including the international standard ISO 22301 and the Business Continuity Institute's Good Practice Guidelines.
In addition, it provides a number of case studies based on the author's considerable experience - some of them successful, others less so - to highlight common pitfalls and problems associated with the validation process.
The book also takes account of industry standards and guidelines to help steer the reader through the validation process, including the international standard ISO 22301 and the Business Continuity Institute's Good Practice Guidelines.
In addition, it provides a number of case studies based on the author's considerable experience - some of them successful, others less so - to highlight common pitfalls and problems associated with the validation process.
Reviews / Votes
Overall I really liked this book, finding it very informative and amusing - it is also best to learn at the expense of the mistakes of others rather than your own. For those new to the subject it provides excellent tips and advice and for those more experienced it provides food for thought and some new challenges. The book is light hearted and entertaining but with a hard hitting message -- Christopher Wright Overall I found it excellently written and of great value. I guess this was expected based on the qualification and experience level of the author.The premise of the book is excellent as it focuses on the need to actually test a plan rather than just write and store it with no future revisions. The writing style is great and the huge range of examples given will be of great value to anyone purchasing the book.
In summary, very enjoyable, derived great value from it and I am sure that it will do extremely well. -- Chris Evans
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Ely
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
332 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84928-773-9 (9781849287739)
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Additional editions
E-Book
11/2015
1st Edition
IT Governance Publishing
€37.99
Available for download
Person
Robert A Clark is a fellow of the Institute of Business Continuity Management, a fellow of the British Computer Society, a member of the Business Continuity Institute and an Approved BCI Instructor. He was employed by IBM for 15 years and Fujitsu for 11, working with clients on BCM-related assignments. He is now a freelance business continuity consultant at www.bcm-consultancy.com. Since 2014, he has been a part-time associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he has delivered BCM courses to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Content
1: Introduction
2: Standards and guidelines
3: Business continuity begins at home
4: Defining your exercise programme
5: Selected scenarios
6: Live rehearsal case studies
7: It could happen to anyone, couldn't it?
8: Maintaining your BCMS
9: Reviewing your BCMS
10: Performance appraisal
11: Using consultants to help you exercise
12: Training and education
13: Additional reference material
2: Standards and guidelines
3: Business continuity begins at home
4: Defining your exercise programme
5: Selected scenarios
6: Live rehearsal case studies
7: It could happen to anyone, couldn't it?
8: Maintaining your BCMS
9: Reviewing your BCMS
10: Performance appraisal
11: Using consultants to help you exercise
12: Training and education
13: Additional reference material