Summary

• In this outline, we have seen that BIA concerns

  • Identifying the cost of disruption in functional and financial terms
  • Setting priority for restoring applications according to business needs

• Meaningful BIA is dependent on

  • Appropriate contributors
  • Appropriate data gathering techniques

• BIA output is viewed from two perspectives

  • Business Perspective
    • People, processes, non-IT resources, recovery time, musts/wants
  • IT Perspective
    • Technology resources required to deliver business applications in time scale demanded

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