BC Professionals FAQs

It is based on value of the data to your organization or the impact there will be of losing access to this data. From a business continuity perspective, the best way to establish this is through "business impact analysis," which measures the impact of a disaster or crisis will have on your revenue stream and/ or your organization’s reputation to all its stakeholders.

An important part of Business Continuity Planning is understanding all the variables that can and do affect the smooth operation of a business. Many methods, qualitative and quantitative, can be used to define these risks.

Business Impact Analysis is used to assess the financial or other loss sustained when Information System or business function is impaired or unavailable.

The RTO is the length of time within which your systems, applications and business functions must be recovered after an outage that has resulted from a disaster or crisis.

The RPO describes your organisation’s tolerance for data loss. How much data are you prepared to lose

It depends! However as a general rule business recovery sites and production sites should geographically separated to the extent that they will avoid all aspects of a potential concentration risk, disaster or crisis.