continuity plan overview
Continuity Planning Overview
Disaster Recovery Management
CIS359
In this writing I will be presenting the main duties for the Business Continuity Lead/Manager position. I feel this position is one that is of great importance, particularly in dealing with the sensitive healthcare information and systems that you all use on a daily basis. This position gives you at least some insurance that if something were to happen your company would not be lost or have a great deal of downtime from providing your essential services to your clients. I will begin by describing some of the task that are requirements of this position.
The Business Continuity Manager (BCM) will take ownership of all the business recovery process, ensuring that the plans, procedures and individuals are in place and properly task to perform functions. The BCM will have a team lead for different divisions (i.e. surgery, cancer ward, information processing), these team leaders will begin the development of their plans, submit them to the BCM and make changes as the BCM sees fit. The team leads will be responsible for informing all personnel in their department of any changes made to the plan. As part of the BCM requirement, he/she will be in charge of hiring/firing all team leads, performing their annual appraisals and monitoring their work.
The BCM and his team will be responsible for performing a company-wide Business Impact Assessment (BIA) which will inform you all, as executives where we stand in the area of recovery and allow you to make informed decisions moving forward. Along with the production of the BIA, each team lead and the BCM will ensure that all staff members are properly made aware and trained on all information that pertains to them and their sections. Each section will be held responsible for their plans of action, and practicing those plans with staff in dry runs.
To protect the sensitive data that your facility manages, the BCM
Disaster Recovery Management
CIS359
In this writing I will be presenting the main duties for the Business Continuity Lead/Manager position. I feel this position is one that is of great importance, particularly in dealing with the sensitive healthcare information and systems that you all use on a daily basis. This position gives you at least some insurance that if something were to happen your company would not be lost or have a great deal of downtime from providing your essential services to your clients. I will begin by describing some of the task that are requirements of this position.
The Business Continuity Manager (BCM) will take ownership of all the business recovery process, ensuring that the plans, procedures and individuals are in place and properly task to perform functions. The BCM will have a team lead for different divisions (i.e. surgery, cancer ward, information processing), these team leaders will begin the development of their plans, submit them to the BCM and make changes as the BCM sees fit. The team leads will be responsible for informing all personnel in their department of any changes made to the plan. As part of the BCM requirement, he/she will be in charge of hiring/firing all team leads, performing their annual appraisals and monitoring their work.
The BCM and his team will be responsible for performing a company-wide Business Impact Assessment (BIA) which will inform you all, as executives where we stand in the area of recovery and allow you to make informed decisions moving forward. Along with the production of the BIA, each team lead and the BCM will ensure that all staff members are properly made aware and trained on all information that pertains to them and their sections. Each section will be held responsible for their plans of action, and practicing those plans with staff in dry runs.
To protect the sensitive data that your facility manages, the BCM