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Moving Away from Business Continuity and To Business Resilience
Author            : Damian Walch, CBCP, CISSP, CISA, MBCI
Designation    :National Practice Executive
Company        : IBM Business Resilience and Continuity Services
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Synopsis
While significant events like the Northeast Power Outage, September 11th and the multitude of virus epidemics have increased the awareness about business continuity they haven't fundamentally changed the way corporate executives think about it -- it's still very reactive. Our executives don't put much value in have contingencies built in the case of a major catastrophe or a more likely disruption to a critical application. This article describes a significant shift in the industry away from a more passive "go down and come up" recovery to a more anticipatory capability of maintaining the availability of our business processes - resilience.

Outline:
  • Historical timeline of DR, business recovery and business continuity
  • Flaws in the notion of those traditional approaches
  • Defining business resilience
a. business processes
b. proactive
c. anticipatory
  • Examples of business resilient solution
a. state agency
b. banking organization
c. drilling and pipeline company
  • Characteristics of a resilient enterprise
a. driven by business - clear understanding of requirements
b. tiered solutions for supporting technology
c. change management is integrated into day-to-day processes
d. cultural acceptance of principals
e. clearly stated commitments to recovery
f. designed for the highest probability occurances - security breaches, failures, etc.
  • Benefits and problems with moving to "business resilience"

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