Defining a Business Continuity Plan
Creating or Duplicating a Business Continuity Plan
A Business Continuity Plan must necessarily be created from a Business Impact Analysis.
You can either create a new one or duplicating an existing one.
To create a Business Continuity Plan:
2. In the properties of a BIA, select the Continuity Plans page.
3. Click New.
4. Enter a name and click OK.
If a BCP exists for the process, you can choose to:• Create a Business Continuity Plan from scratch
• Duplicate a Business Continuity Plan
See Designing a Business Continuity Plan to define its content.
Designing a Business Continuity Plan
A Business Continuity Plan consists of recovery steps and lists the risks which are likely to trigger it.
General characteristics a Business Continuity Plan
The following information is available:
• Status
• Ongoing
• Archived
• Entity: entity of the BCM System the Business Continuity Plan applies to.
• Process: the process of the Business Continuity Plan scope
• Validity dates (Valid From and Valid Until)
Creating recovery steps
To create a recovery step:
2. In the properties of a Business Continuity Plan, select the Recovery Steps page.
3. Click New.
4. Define a Responsible user.
5. Enter a Description.
Listing risks triggering a BCP
In the properties of a Business Continuity Plan, you must list the risks which are likely to trigger the BCP.
All the risks that are in the scope of the process corresponding to the BCP are listed here.