IT Business Alignment - BIA - Business Impact Analysis
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Business and IT Impact Questionnaire
Risk Assessment Methodology in an ITIL Compliant Framework
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The business impact analysis is an essential and often overlooked component of a solid IT disaster recovery, business continuity, security, and compliance framework. This questionnaire walks you through the documentation process so management can understand the business risks and impact associated with each physical location, business function, and IT application.
As you go through this analysis, you will likely discover risk areas that you have not previously considered. Conversely, you are likely to miss critical risk areas if you do not conduct the essential step of methodically documenting all risk areas.
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Business and IT Impact Questionnaire supports the ITIL Risk Assessment Methodology
The typical organization has hundreds of applications all at different recoverability capability. For example some have no plan, some have out of region architectures some have not exercised in long time and some are in great shape testing every quarter.
All of the applications need to be categorizing them so that the Disaster Planning Team can start re-mediating the ones that place the enterprise at the most risk to the business from both a compliance and readiness perspective.
Using the ITIL framework, you can weigh each Critical Success Factor (CSF) and scoring their Key Performance Indicators (KPI). That allows you to create a rating system and developing a score card report by tiers.
Weighting Critical Success Factors
Examples
- 6 = Critical to success of recovery
- 3 = Required for timely recovery (could recover without but risk is increased)
- 1 = Needed to support recovery but only minimal impact on recovery efforts
Scoring of Key Performance Indicators
Examples
- Not in place or not implemented = 0
- Completed but past the KPI deadline, not accurate or incomplete = 1
- In place or completed on time = 3
- Final rating for each CSF and the associated KPI multiply the weight of the CSF by the score of the KPI
Critical Success Factors/Key Performance Indicators Examples:
- CSF: Conduct exercise at alternate facility (Weight 6)
- KPI = Conduct an annual exercise alternate facility
- CSF: Update BCP Plans (Weight 3)
- KPI = Update BCP plans by <insert date> each year
- CSF: Conduct Annual Tabletop of recovery Plan (Weight 3)
- KPI = Conduct at least 1 annual tabletop of BCP plans by December
Disaster Planning Template Contains the BIA Questionnaire
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The Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) includes the BIA Business Impact Analysis Questionnaire. In addition the Disaster Planning and Business Continuity Planning Template include:
- Disaster Recovery Plan and Business Continuity framework
- Work Plan
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Audit Program
- Pandemic Planning Checklist
- Incident Communication Plan and Policy
- Electronic Forms
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