Software: PLANet for Community Banks: What is BCP?

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is the advanced planning and preparations necessary to identify the impact of potential loss, formulate and implement viable recovery plans that ensure continuity of services and administer a comprehensive training, testing and maintenance program.

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The Bare Essentials
The business continuity plan (BCP) begins with analyzing your vulnerabilities and weakness. Starting with a business impact analysis (BIA) will show you where and how you are most likely to suffer a loss of service and how will it affect your bottom line.

Where to Begin? Business Impact Analyses 101
Recently been volunteered to spearhead the company’s enterprise-wide business continuity planning efforts? Wondering where to begin? This article outlines the basic steps to a successful business impact analysis.

Conducting a BIA for Evolving Industry
When a business entity recognizes the need to develop a prudent corporate posture to survive today’s unexpected disruptions, it’s necessary to take a fresh perspective of the company’s mission-critical operations and its individual operating units.

Reporting Business Impact Analysis Results
If you were diligent in the design and creation of the questionnaire, you now have all the information you need to analyze the requirements of the business units, select the proper recovery strategies, develop the plans and start the training programs. Simple isn’t it?

BCP Lessons Learned on September 11
Article and sidebar discuss the lessons learned in the aftermath of the terrorist attack.

The BCP Sell to Executives is Tough, but Does it Have to Be?
Selling BCP to upper management has always been a challenge. But the problem may be in the way you’re presenting continuity planning, not the BCP concept itself. The bottom line is that when communicating BCP ideas and proposals, you have to stop being a planner and start being a salesperson.

So Much to Do, So Little Time
Successfully orchestrating business continuity planning throughout the enterprise can be complicated for experienced business continuity practitioners as well as those new to the job.

Protecting Information Assets from Terrorism
The topic on many people’s mind at the moment is how can we protect our companies and ourselves from terrorism and bioterrorism.

Why Do So Many Information Protection Programs Fail?
The missing factor in an effective information protection program is employee involvement. Many organizations go to great lengths to develop an extensive set of controls and countermeasures, purchase the latest technology, design in audit trails and print out security logs…and still security fails.

The Advancing Process of Business Continuity Planning in North America
Disaster recovery, emergency management and continuity planning professionals in both the public and private sectors worldwide face many challenges as they strive to do their jobs in a rapidly changing business and service environment.

Important Damage / Site Assessment Issues
It is difficult for organizations to execute their business/service continuity plans when they have no idea how severe the damage is, or how long it will be before they can have access to the environment which houses their core business operations, their vital records, critical work in progress and production capabilities.

How to Plan for Organization-Wide Business & Service Continuity
Singular, isolated business or service disruptions as well as large-scale, community-wide disasters have shown us that a well designed and tested organization-wide recovery and continuity of operations plan must be in place.

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