Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Business - Choosing Business Continuity Strategies

The risk analysis, as well as business impact analysisa disaster or disruption, the fast recovery of the key
would have identifiable risks to the primary businessbusiness functionalities and the mitigation of damages.
functionalities. Additionally, the potential impacts andA lot of companies and organizations associate
possibilities of these risks and the costs needed incontinuity and disaster recovery exclusively with IT
the prevention or mitigation of damages and the timeand the work that they do. They usually miss the
needed to recover would have been established. Theother important area, which could seriously impact
evaluation and selection of which strategies to usetheir business. The other common areas needed to
would be based on the use of this knowledge.be focused on for strategy development and
Strategy selection would involve concentrating on thestrategy selection would be facilities, employees,
primary risk areas, as well as selecting which strategycustomer service, billing, power, as well as customer
to use for each one. The main goals would be theand public relations.
maintenance of business continuity when faced with