| type="text/javascript"> | | | | impact is a lot more focused on making sure that the |
| Analysis of business impact would be a crucial aspect | | | | business is kept operational and less focused on |
| of the process of the business continuity planning. | | | | disaster recovery. The analysis of business impact is |
| This step would be quantifying the data and would | | | | also not focused just on the possible disasters but |
| be getting into the real issues of potential losses, | | | | also on the possible critical discontinuities. The primary |
| which could negatively impact your business | | | | elements of Business Impact Analysis would be |
| . This particular step is used to be able to understand | | | | identifying the critical business functions, establishing |
| the most critical impacts, as well as how to be able | | | | the maximum outage time, which is acceptable for |
| to protect your data, processes, people, assets, | | | | each of the functions, and determining the impact of |
| communications and the goodwill and reputation of | | | | not being able to perform those functions. All of |
| the organization. | | | | these could be measured using legal, financial, |
| Organizations usually think of disaster recovery, when | | | | operations, regulatory and customer service |
| business continuity and the analysis of the business | | | | requirements. |