Data Management & Organizational Resilience: Definition and Analysis
Posted on Thu, Sep 22, 2011
This is the fifth article in a series entitled: Data Management and Organizational Resilience. ASG is offering a series of blogs as well as a white paper that aggregates these blogs into one download, with the intent to make the case for data management and its correlation to the Organizational Resilience Management function.
Scope
In defining the scope of the project we want to define the boundaries of the organization to be included as being the whole organization or one or more of its constituent parts, while establishing the requirements for management considering the organization's goals, mission (internal and external), obligations, and legal responsibilities. Further, the enterprise will want to consider critical operational objectives, assets, functions, services, and products. Additionally, we want to determine risk scenarios based on both potential internal and external events that could adversely affect the critical operations and functions of the organization within the context of their potential impact.
Objectives
The objectives of the process are a commitment to the protection of human, environmental and physical assets through anticipating and preparing for potential adverse events coupled with business and operational continuity.
Risk, Threat, and Vulnerability Assessment
A comprehensive, all hazard, qualitative risk threat and vulnerability assessment should be conducted to determine potential threat scenarios, where risk is a measure of the potential damage to or loss of an asset based on the probability of an undesirable occurrence.
Business Impact Analysis
The business impact analysis will identify enterprise’s most crucial systems and processes and the effect an outage would have on the organization. The greater the potential impact, the more money you should spend to restore a system or process quickly.
As we continue this series, our next article will focus on the steps required in planning.
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