Key scenarios to test your business continuity plan
Having a business continuity plan is essential for keep operations afloat criticism in the face of possible disasters or emergencies that affect the ordinary operations of the company and, consequently, generate losses.
The purpose is that, in the event of any unforeseen event, the business continuity plan (BCP) is really effective in partially or fully recovering the company's activities. That's why we bring you Four scenarios to test your contingency plan.
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Have you tested your business continuity plan in these four scenarios?
1.) Security breached
This is undoubtedly one of the sensitive points of the business continuity plan. After Kaspersky reported While 48% of small and medium-sized businesses reported a breach of their files, multi-site (decentralized) SMEs seek to protect customer data at all costs.
For this reason, companies must do a test to delimit What would be the immediate procedures? in response to a possible theft of files. The drill should also define who will be responsible if such a scenario occurs and how those potentially affected will be notified.
2.) Restoration and operation
To deal with an unexpected network service outage or data loss, it is also necessary to perform a test to find out how to restore the Backup and test the uptime, RTO and RPO in which the company can access the restored data.
Some organizations even test what they would do in a possible scenario. offline where they cannot access the information within a tolerable period, but need to continue functioning.
3.) Network downtime and power failures
If due to a local incident, the company remains without electricity for several hours or days, what actions would be taken? It is necessary to ensure that the continuity plan specifies people available to work remotely and which relevant departments should be supported, if possible, with a backup power generator.
4.) Without staff
As part of a preventive strategy to continue business operations, it is imperative that SMEs carry out a simulation to determine what they would do if they do not have the basic staff to handle the company's essential incidents in a time of contingency.
This type of test allows us to know What mechanisms could solve this situation?, such as enabling workers from other areas or providing a temporary automation service that guarantees, during the RTO, the provision of the service.
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