GET TO KNOW THE BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN (BCP)

Get to know the Business Continuity Plan (BCP),- The Business Continuity Plan (BCP) can be defined as a plan to respond to emergencies, post-disaster backup and recovery operations. BCP is part of information security that facilitates and ensures the availability of the company's operating system in an emergency situation. BCP allows returning the system to normal conditions quickly after a disaster or event that disrupts the company's operational sustainability.

BCP is comprehensive and detailed planning starting from the upcoming disaster until the recovery of business operations after the disaster. BCP is a compilation or collection of other plans such as:

• Disaster Recovery Plan
• End-User Recovery Plan
• Contingency Plan
• Emergency Response Plan
• Crisis Management Plan
• Other plans such as (Server Recovery Plan or Phone System Plan)

Goal

The purpose of BCP is to minimize the effects of disasters or events that disrupt the company's operations and also reduce the risk of losses. BCP also aims to improve the company's capability in the recovery process as soon as possible against disasters.

Disaster

Disasters referred to in BCP are all events that occur and have the potential to disrupt the operation of the company's operations from normal conditions. BCP disasters consist of two categories, namely:

Man Made Disaster

It is a disaster caused by people intentionally or unintentionally. Examples such as Bombs, Sabotage, Communication Failure, Demonstrations, Wrong configurations, and others.

bencana Alam

Is a disaster caused by nature? For example, erupting mountains, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, lightning, landslides and others.

Component

There are several key components that BCP has, along with these components:

Assess

Identify any threats that can occur and their impact on the company. This assessment also includes downtime that can be tolerated at the time of a disaster.

Evaluate

Assess the possibility of threats and the impact of each threat. This assessment is based on how much chance and possibility of the disaster occurred.

Prepare

Preparing for the company's operational sustainability at the time of occurrence and post-disaster. At this stage not only planning for BCP, but management from the planning, training employees, good documentation and periodic testing of planning.

Mitigate

Identify what actions can reduce ongoing threats or future threats. This plan includes things that can reduce the possibility of threats.

Respond

Planning the actions needed to minimize the impact on the company when the disaster materializes. Fast and precise response can minimize the impact of disasters for the company. Companies that have prepared a plan for responding to disasters can respond quickly to those who do not have it.

Recover

Actions needed to restore the company's operations as quickly as possible.

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Reference:
CPNI - Business Continuity Planning
IT Handbook - Business Continuity Planning

Wikipedia - Business Continuity Planning