BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT

USING THE NFPA 1600 2007 STANDARD

The NFPA 1600 standard combines the best practices from three
separate fields: business continuity management, emergency
management, and disaster management. The result is a single
integrated approach. NFPA calls this a "Total Program Approach".
If you apply the NFPA 1600 Standard to Business Continuity
Management (BCM), you will be applying the accumulated
wisdom and knowledge of experts from three important fields.

The purpose of the NFPA 1600 standard is to help you to:

• Establish a new Business Continuity Program

• Improve an existing Business Continuity Program

Introduction to Business Continuity Programs

A Business Continuity Program must:

• Identify the impact that potential losses can
  have on the continuation of service delivery

• Maintain effective service recovery
  plans, procedures, and strategies

• Ensure that service delivery is continued
  even though serious losses have occurred

To ensure that service delivery continues without
interruption, a Business Continuity Program must
develop a Business Continuity Plan. Such a plan
should identify:

• Contact lists that must be maintained

• Stakeholders that must be notified

• Alternative work sites that must be available

• Time-sensitive applications that must be protected

• Vital records that must be accessible

• Processes that must be performed

• Functions that must be carried out

If you would like to see what the new NFPA 1600 Business
Continuity Management Standard looks like, please see:
NFPA 1600 2007 Translated into Plain English.

Introduction to NFPA 1600

How to Perform an NFPA 1600 Risk Assessment

Our Plain English Approach to NFPA 1600

ISO 27001 2005 Information Security Library