Requirements and context gathering – business impact assessment
The business impact assessment (BIA) is a key component of the overall business continuity process. With the business impact assessment, you are seeking to gather all the necessary information to allow the business to make the appropriate resource decisions that will allow for the effective creation of appropriate business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
Inputs to the BIA
The inputs to the BIA are coming from your business and mission team members. These inputs are used to inform the business continuity and disaster recovery process:
- Business process supported: You must clearly identify the business process that is supported when developing your BIA. This information will be looked at when developing the rationale behind why your organization should expend resources to operate this system during a disaster.
- Information and services criticality: This is where you define the specific data and information systems that support...