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Defining a Crisis
Managing Crises
Accessing crises
To access crises:
*In the navigation menu, select Continuity > Crisis Management.
Creating a crisis
To create a crisis:
1. In the navigation menu, select Continuity > Crisis Management.
2. Click New.
Crisis General Characteristics
In the properties of a crisis, you can specify the following:
start date
end date
crisis status
ongoing
closed
*You must specify the status manually.
Specifying the Business Continuity Plans to Trigger
To face the crisis, you must trigger one or several Business Continuity Plans.
To specify the Business Continuity Plans to trigger:
2. In the properties of a crisis, expand the Triggered Business Continuity Plans.
3. Add one or several ongoing BCPs.
For each BCP, the corresponding Process is displayed as a column, together with its owner.
The following information appear in columns:
Open incidents connected to the process
Business process / Organizational process owner
RTO: RTO of the last closed BIA
Business impact: Business impact of the last closed BIA
Last BIA: last BIA closure date