Senior management have decided they want a business impact analysis (BIA) that examines the company's data center and a business continuity plan (BCP). Because of the importance of risk management to the organization, management has allocated all funds for both efforts. Your team has their full support, as well as permission to contact any of them directly for participation or inclusion in the BIA or BCP.

Winter storms on the East Coast have affected the ability of Health Network employees to reach the Arlington offices in a safe and timely manner. However, no BCP plan currently exists to address corporate operations. The Arlington office is the primary location for business units, such as Finance, Legal, and Customer Support. Some of the corporate systems, such as the payroll and accounting applications, are located only in the corporate offices. Each corporate location is able to access the other two, and remote virtual private networks (VPNs) exist between each production data center and the corporate locations.

The corporate systems are not currently being backed up and should be addressed in the new plan. The BCP should also include some details regarding how the BCP will be tested.

For this part of the project:

1. Develop a draft BCP that could recover business operations while efforts are ongoing to restart previous operations. Include the following sections at a minimum. You may add to this. Use the BIA to prioritize recovery operations:
   1. Introduction (Purpose/Scope)
   2. Responsibilities
   3. Notification and activation
   4. BIA
      • 2 Critical business functions (No IT)
      • 2 Critical resources (IT Resources please) for each business function
      • Maximum acceptable outage (MAO) and impact
   5. Recovery Phase
   6. Schedule (include training, testing, and exercises)