Security Assessment
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Business Impact Analysis
A BIA determines what your organisation actually cannot live without: which processes, systems and suppliers are critical, how fast each must recover, and what downtime truly costs. It is the factual foundation for continuity planning and ISO 22301.
The advantage
Recovery investment lands where downtime genuinely hurts — you stop over-protecting the trivial and under-protecting the critical, because you finally have the numbers.
Benefits
- Objective recovery priorities (RTO/RPO) per process, agreed by the business
- Reveals hidden dependencies — the single supplier or server everything needs
- Mandatory foundation for credible ISO 22301 and DR planning
- Downtime cost figures strengthen every resilience budget case
Considerations
- Needs interviews across departments — coordination effort
- Estimates require candour about real process dependencies
- Must be refreshed as the business changes (typically annually)
How the project is executed
Five phases, each with defined deliverables — you always know where the project stands.
BIAproject
1. AssessProcess inventory · Interview planning
2. PlanCriticality criteria · Department workshops
3. ImplementImpact & dependency analysis · RTO / RPO definition
4. VerifyValidation with leadership · BIA report
5. SustainContinuity strategy input · Annual refresh
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