Date: 03/04/03

Business Continuity Dependency Model

Time: 12:37

Effective Recovery Plans

DOA at HQ Site

How Long? (DOA)

Short Term DOA

DOA Under 24 hours

10

"Shut out for a day" Plan

10

Long Term DOA

DOA More than 24 hours

10

Invoke DR Plan
10

When? (DOA)

DOA During Normal Office

Office Hours DOA

10

Office Hours Evacuation

10

DOA Out of Office Hours

Out of Office Hours DOA

10

Out of Office Hours Call

10

Technology

Data Centre

Power Systems D/C

Power Systems (D/C) OK

10

Power Backup - Dual

10

Flooding D/C

Flooding (D/C) probability OK

10

Water Detect. Drip Trays &

10

Fire D/C

Fire (D/C) probability OK

10

Fire Detection and Sprinklers

10

Air Conditioning D/C

Air Conditioning D/C OK

10

Alternative Cooling available?

10

Servers

Server 1

Server 1 (non-critical) OK
10

Repair/Ship-in & Restore Svr 1

10

Server 2

Server 2 (critical) OK
10

Invoke DR, Ship-in contract

10

Local Area Network

LAN 1 Subset

LAN 1 Subset OK
10

LAN 1 Repair or Replace

10

LAN 2 Subset

LAN 2 Subset OK
10

LAN 2 Repair or Replace

10

Patch Panel

Patch Panel OK
10

Patch Panel failure is managed

Patch Panel Repair or Replace

Patching Records up to date

10

Patch Panel Repair or Replace

10

"Shut out for a day" Plan

10

Telephony

Telephone System (Mfr.?) OK

10

Invoke Telephone DR Plan

Telephonist to DR Site
10

Mobile Telephone Contract

10

Provider Exchange Divert

10

Wide Area Network

WAN
10

WAN Backup?
10

People

Key Staff

Key Staff (Business)

Key Staff (Business) available

10

Backup Business Staff

10

Key Staff (Technical)

Key Staff (Technical) available

10

Backup Technical Staff

10

Operational Staff

Normal Staffing Levels

10

Business Recovery Teams

10

Information

Paper Records

Paper Records not Destroyed

10

Paper Records Recovered

10

Key Records kept in Fire Safe

10

Paper Record copies off-site

10

Copies recreated from source

10

Applications

Applications OK

MS Office

MS Office OK
10

MS Office Workarounds
10

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat OK
10

Adobe Acrobat Workarounds

10

WinZip

WinZip OK
10

WinZip Workarounds
10

App 1

App1 OK
10

App1 Workarounds
10

App 2

App 2 OK
10

App 2 Workarounds
10

App 3

App 3 OK
10

Author Title Subject Revision No.

(c) 2003 Chris Baker Dependency.Com T:01296-696362 Business Continuity Risk Model Business Continuity Risks Assessment Model 1.2

App 3 Workarounds
10

App 4

App 4 OK
10

App 4 Workarounds
10

App 5

App 5 OK
10

This model is used as a standard approach to assessing the preparedness of an organisation to meet and recover from threats to Business Continuity. Scores rated from 1 to 10 where 1 = Good and 10 = Bad

App 5 Workarounds
10

Restore Applications from

10

File: DRtemplt.RAT

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