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Business continuity is the process of setting in place a contingency plan in case of an unexpected event that threatens an organization’s ability to operate. Such events could include ransomware attacks, unexpected failures, outages, and natural disasters. Business continuity is closely related to—and complements—disaster recovery (DR), commonly referred to together as BC/DR. Although the two terms are often used interchangeably, business continuity strategies focus on keeping the organization as a whole operational, while disaster recovery strategies focus on restoring IT systems as rapidly as possible.
Business can stop unexpectedly for any reason. A natural disaster. A labor disagreement. A digital heist.
Yet, in today’s digital-first business world, IT is most often the reason for downtime. And because consumers now expect to be able to do everything online, including shopping, banking, visiting a doctor, learning, discovering new products, and making appointments, business continuity management is more important than ever.
Failure to plan for unexpected disruptions—from an hour of downtime to a years-long pandemic—can be disastrous for organizations. In a worst-case scenario, a business may never recover and may have to close permanently.
Creating a comprehensive and well-tested business continuity plan helps ensure that your organization can survive unexpected downtime.
Typically, the following individuals and teams are involved in crafting enterprise-wide business continuity plans:
As workplaces embrace remote and hybrid work, IT is now a major consideration in any business continuity plan. Policies and procedures must be in place to ensure that the business continues. If your business cannot provide access to data, applications, and infrastructure because of a natural disaster or cyberattack, the repercussions are serious.
Yet, many organizations struggle because of the fragmented nature of their IT environments. So, before the power or anything else goes out, ensure IT resilience is a cornerstone of your business continuity plan. Once your plan is written, test it early and often.
That includes choosing to implement proven data protection architectures and nimble disaster recovery with efficient recovery point objectives and recovery time objectives (RPOs/RTOs). The most effective solutions are software-defined, self-healing, and automated. They require less manual intervention which reduces failures and speeds remediation, should downtime occur.
A comprehensive business continuity plan will outline all of the people, processes, and technologies involved in keeping the organization as a whole operational. It is slightly different—and more complete—than a disaster recovery (DR) plan that focuses entirely on restoring IT systems as rapidly as possible from an unexpected event.
Your business continuity management plan should outline and include:
Once the business continuity plan is crafted, teams should be prepared to test each element to ensure it will work in a crisis situation and to fix what doesn’t.
Once your team is assembled, the first step in crafting your business continuity plan should be identifying personas. This entails performing comprehensive “day-in-the-life” journeys of key worker types across the organization.
For example, a retailer may have these types of personas:
The business continuity team would then map each persona’s mission-critical functions to the plan, noting application dependencies.
With both knowledge of the IT data management (i.e., backup and recovery) systems as well as the IT topography, the team would then determine the following:
Your organization’s ability to recover from a disaster—natural, technical, health, or human error—is essential for your business to survive over the long term.
A continuity plan is critical for a variety of reasons, including:
Yes, business continuity management is part of risk management, as effective planning and execution are critical to reducing overall enterprise risk.
However, since the pandemic, there has been a renewed focus at all levels of organizations—not just those evaluating risk—on how prepared the business is to support a wider range of challenges, from immediate events such as disaster recovery and ransomware recovery to longer-term realities such as data protection.
A key to mitigating risk and boosting business continuity simultaneously is having a system in place that not only captures data but has the intelligence to fine tune operations and remediate, as needed.
A mainstay of any business continuity plan is a robust disaster recovery (DR) solution. Because attackers, disasters, and human errors are unpredictable, a DR solution must always be ready for the worst-case scenario to ensure a viable business continuity plan.
Cohesity boosts business continuity strategies by providing a DR solution as part of its comprehensive data management platform rather than a patchwork of legacy, on-premises DR products that only protect specific application tiers and meet the individual corresponding service levels. Cohesity’s platform caters to the protection and recovery of all your applications — on-prem or in the cloud. With a unified policy engine that lets you control your protection (snapshots/continuous) and failover (secondary site/cloud) modalities, Cohesity puts you in control of your business continuity plan. The Cohesity solution is deeply automated, with instant failover and recovery across business-critical and mission-critical applications, service levels, and environments with near-zero downtime and almost no data loss.
While there are multiple ways to design a robust backup/DR plan, the goal is the same: to deliver always-on resiliency and availability to your customers and employees. Cohesity helps you do this by eliminating your legacy DR silos, consolidating the recovery processes of all your critical data and infrastructure on a single, seamless, automated software platform.