Business Continuity Planning In Difficult Economic Times

Business continuity planning on an enterprise-wide level is an involved and costly process. Certainly, each company would do well to have some kind of comprehensive plan to handle crises. However, in these challenging economic times, many companies are choosing to postpone or eliminate business continuity planning from their budgets, even though they may have no plan at all in place. This being the case, security professionals may want to try a more modular approach to safeguarding the company's assets. A Critical System Recovery Plan documents each step required to recover an application deemed vital to the well being of the organization. Since it focuses on only one application environment at a time, the scope - and thus the cost - is much reduced. Compiling these plans on a gradual, system by system basis will move the corporation slowly towards the goal of being able to document their recovery processes, while still having a lesser impact to the reduced revenues that businesses are seeing today.