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Business Impact Analysis Essentials

A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) identifies critical business processes and functions, determines the maximum amount of time processes can be down before significant impact occurs, and establishes recovery objectives. A BIA helps understand criticality levels, recovery time requirements, and the steps to balance recovery costs against costs of disruption to prioritize resources.

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Business Impact Analysis Essentials

A Business Impact Analysis (BIA) identifies critical business processes and functions, determines the maximum amount of time processes can be down before significant impact occurs, and establishes recovery objectives. A BIA helps understand criticality levels, recovery time requirements, and the steps to balance recovery costs against costs of disruption to prioritize resources.

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Business Impact

Analysis
What Is a BIA?
• Predicts the consequences of disruption of a
business function
• How to recovery data
BIA overview

• Understand which processes in your business


are important
• Understand the impact the disruption of critical
processes

3
Four purposes of the BIA

• Understand:
➢ Most critical objectives
➢ Identify maximum tolerable outage for each
➢ List the resource information
➢ Prepare dependencies

4
Understanding impact criticality

• Criticality categories
1. mission-critical
2. vital
3. Important
4. Minor

5
Recovery Time Requirements
• Maximum tolerable downtime (MTD):
• Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
• Recovery Point Objective:

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Balancing Costs
• Cost to recover
• Cost of disruption
Steps Involved in BIA
• Scope
• Stakeholders
• Critical functions and systems
• Tolerable outage
• Systems to be recovered

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