Course: Business Continuity Planning & Disaster Recovery Planning

Due Date 3 days

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Post: Compose and submit well-written paragraphs that contain a minimum of 200 words, which address the following: 

 

Work  Area Recovery Plan is a vital plan that establishes an adequate  environment for people to work in the event of a disruptive  incident.  Discuss the challenges that organizations without proper Work Area  Recovery Plan may face when disruptive events arise.

What are the benefits of performing Pandemic risk assessment in an organization?
 

The post should include adequate citations and references that adhere strictly to the APA format.

Reading –  Chapters nine and ten of the following text: Wallace, M., & Webber, L. (2018). The  disaster recovery handbook: a step-by-step plan to ensure business  continuity and protect vital operations, facilities, and assets. New York, NY: AMACOM. ISBN-13: 978-0814438763 

“APA Format”

The recommended standard writing style for the school, and this   course is the American Psychological Association (APA) format. Refer to   the following link for more information on how to use of APA style:  

Other resources include the School Library and the Purdue OWL APA resource, available in the following link: 

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By the due date assigned, respond to the Discussion Assignment. Post your response to the Discussion Area. Your answer should:

• Provide detailed evidence, including excerpts from the literary text.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the themes, genres, cultures, time periods, and texts that are this week’s focus.
• Apply APA style guidelines to the source material.

By the end of week, review and comment on two of your classmates’ answers and the peer-reviewed article that they post, writing at least one paragraph about the peer-reviewed article. Your responses should be substantive, which means that you should provide a significant level of detail in your reply and show active engagement by referencing the readings, drawing on your own experiences, giving your opinions, respectfully disagreeing where appropriate, or asking questions designed to generate further discussion on the material and its implications outside the realm of the question.

Question: One of the major themes in The Inferno is the relationship between God and humanity, particularly as it relates to sin and God’s justice. Let’s explore what the scholarship has to say about this topic. First, review the lecture on evaluating sources and locating peer-reviewed articles. Then, go to the SUO library and in a scholarly journal find a credible, full-text, peer-reviewed article about The Inferno. Write a citation for the article that is formatted in APA style and then annotate the article.

Now, review The Inferno, and locate a specific passage that you feel illustrates one key aspect of the relationship between God and humanity. Provide your interpretation of this relationship. How does Dante imagine the relationship between God and humanity? What are the differences between your interpretation and the article you located? What are the similarities?

Remember that your claims in all parts of the assignment should be substantiated by excerpts from appropriate sources (scholarly research and/or literary texts). Quotes, paraphrase, and summary used in the assignment should be arranged according to APA rules of style, and in-text and reference citations should be provided, also formatted in APA style. Quoted material should not exceed 25% of the post. Submit the final document in the Discussion Area.

reply to these posts between 150-200 words 

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The BCP – Business Continuity Plan has a wide range of disaster where 75% of the businesses which are claimed and lost their businesses did not has any disaster recovery plan. If you are running a small business then you know when and where the disaster will happen and you can fall back or stop spending in the business. There are over 25% of the businesses which are closed due to major disaster has never reopened.

These are different Business Continuity Plan’s,
Defining Your Team Clearing: The first thing the employees of the organization want to know who will be in charge at the time if disaster situations. At this time if we are creating a team on the business continuity team would help the company and have the answers for the important questions which may come under disaster and we can counter those questions are we can help the company by falling under disaster node. This team will be in charge of planning and testing throughout the year such that there will be no major disaster and keep the plan up to date.

Meticulous Planning is Essential: If we are planning three steps ahead of any situation any given time will help us to keep ahead and away in a disaster situation rather than trying to figure out the needs that may need at the time of unfolding disaster situation. 

Testing Effectively: As we are in planning mode we need to have the testing plan at work as well and on a regular basis we need to test all the plans. Any of the planned plans is out of date then that plan needs to be replanned or else it may cause confusion at the time of disaster where it actually strikes.

Crisis COmmunications: In crisis communications, the effective means of communications with all the employees during any disaster is very much important. Crating a toolkit that has a wide range of all the important communications channels plans like telecommunications, intranet, emails, etc can be useful at the time of disaster. Having this kind of toolkit handy will be more useful at the time of disaster and it will be in handy too and can be used at the right time.

Employees Safty is Key: There is nothing more important than keeping the employees safe in any disaster situation. Any disaster situation reaching out to the disaster management companies like FEMA is a good way to give yourself and the team with the emergency response training to help to understand and do as instructed.

Accessing Business Resources: Keeping the staff of your company productive at the time of disaster is a very good move for protecting the data. The other way is establishing remote computer networks which will allow you to save the data at the time disaster is a good move. Working with any IT professionals at the time of disaster to keep the mobile network secured and which is also fast while saving your own data.

Continuous IT Operations: The other way is to have backups on offsite which were the data is backed up continuously and it will help a lot at the time of disaster. Many of the companies in the market has avoided losing the data where the market was hit by ransomware, what they did was they have stored their data offsite and had many backup plans and recovery plans.

Risks and Impacts: All the business continuity plans identify the internal and external risks of the organizations. This can also include major events as well such as hurricane, fire or floods, frauds, failures in telecommunications, etc. The plan includes the assessments of the risks levels of all the disasters also estimating the consequences of each individual disaster.

Duties and Priorities: Any clear commands in the disaster are a good way structured duty. Prioritizing peoples are very much critical at the time of disaster which may also include property damages etc. The plan identifies the key employees who must be in the operational stats from the day of their joining in the organization to help the consumers/ organizations etc.

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Business Continuity Planning consists of seven key elements as described below.

Establish a Planning Committee: It varies as per the team size, but its more effective adding the veterinarians, managers, and supervisors into the planning meeting.

Conduct a Business Impact Analysis: A business impact analysis (BIA) supports the entire business continuity process. It is a process used to identify, quantify, and qualify the impact of a loss, interruption, or disruption. A BIA identifies mission-critical activities and the time frame within which they must be recovered. Explore all the risks that your practice is exposed to and the possible major disruptions that could occur.

And dont forget about your suppliers. Could you still operate if your top vendors closed due to a disaster? Consider the actions needed for your practice to remain operational. Plan alternatives for your critical supplier dependencies.

Mitigate Risk: After the BIA, the practice should mitigate risks that threaten the health and safety of people, operations, patients, company assets, or the environment by reducing the risk to an acceptable level

Establish Business Continuity Strategies: This establishes the strategies for alternate practices to work at temporarily, mutual aid agreements with animal shelters, practices to take patients, cross trainings.

Develop Your Plan: Record everything in the BIA process and develop a plan for disasters and emergencies. At a minimum, the plan should include goals and objectivies, risk mitigation plans, supplier vendor readiness, plan maintenance etc.

Implement and Train: Performs the training for employees with key roles and assignments in the business continuity, disaster recovery and incident response processes.

Test the Plan: Testing is the common name taken to elaborate the crucial process of exercising strategies and plans, practicing with coworkers, testing the cross systems to demonstrate the business continuity.

Assignment Content

1.    Your Smallville client has asked Gail Industries to investigate the exposure to external users doing transactions over the internet. As the Gail Industries IT manager, you must prepare the report for the executive leadership. Write as if to the client.

   Review the .

   Analyze risks and threats associated with operating systems, networks, and database systems.

   Write a 4- to 5-page report for the top management, including a 1-page executive summary. Include the following in your BUSINESS report:

   • Risk and threats associated with conducting transactions over the internet
   • Threats related to operating systems, networks, and system software
   • Risk related to different database deployment models in a distributed environment

   • Please note that all assignments are required to have a minimum of 3 references with in-text citations. If you are unsure of what is required, please ask well in advance. Use APA format guidelines.

     Note: You will address risk mitigation and provide recommendations in Week 4.

Assignment Content

1.    Your Smallville client has asked you to gather details to meet IT audit requirements to determine whether IT services meet the organizations objectives. Prepare a report for your Smallville client on IT audit objectives, risk assessment, and what help you may need from them to complete this task. Write or present as if to the client.

   Review the .

   Write a 3- to 4-page report or create a 12- to 16-slide media-rich presentation with speaker notes in which you:

   • Describe the reasons it is important to conduct periodic reviews of information systems to determine whether they continue to meet the organizations objectives.
   • Discuss the importance of the organizations policies and practices as they relate to information systems and IT infrastructure.
   • Identify strategic and operational objectives for planning for the audit.
   • Evaluate different risk assessments techniques and monitoring tools to consider during an audit process.
   • Note: You are preparing for a systems audit, not a financial audit. Frame your analysis around the systems, not the accounting or finance aspects directly.

     Please note that all assignments are required to have a minimum of 3 references with in-text citations. If you are unsure of what is required, please ask well in advance. Use APA guidelines.