Business Continuity Self Assessment

The following self assessment is a simple quiz to give you an idea as to how confident and prepared your organization is with regards to handling business disruptions.

It is fairly self-evident that the best time to respond to a business disruption before it occurs. An investment in time and resources now can help prepare your organization to cope with the unexpected in the future.

Questions

1. Do you have an enterprise-wide Business Continuity Plan in place?

2. Are you using a standardized methodology to develop and maintain your Business Continuity Plan?

3. Have you conducted a Business Impact Analysis?

4. Have you discussed Business Continuity with your client(s)?

5. Has a Business Continuity coordiantor/planner been identified in your organization?

6. Has a risk and impact assessment been performed on your organization for all of your locations?

7. Have you identified all contractual requirements for recovery of processing, services, and products? If no formal written contractual requirements exist, have you determined the accepted industry standards that may apply?

8. Has your recovery plan been reviewed by any auditors? (Eg. corporate auditors, various regulatory examiners, or internal IT audit staff.)

9. Has your organization been thoroughly reviewed for areas of potential future litigation in the event of failures?

10. Have you executed a full or partial rehearsal of business continuation within the past 12 months, measured the success, and reviewed any failures?

If you answer no to most of the questions above, please contact XSM Systems for assistance in evaluating your business continuity requirements.