Organizations that are fully dependent on information technology should have developed so-called Business Continuity Management. This is a set of actions that need to be taken in the event of a disruption of normal operations, accidents or other crisis situations. The organization prepares disaster recovery plans in advance for individual possible risks and thus reduces the consequences that will occur in the event of an accident or contingency situation.
The BCM contains plans (e.g. recovery plans, emergency plans) that cover events or incidents such as:
These disaster recovery plans will ensure that the company is able to ensure the recovery of all critical functions as soon as possible. This ensures that the features are always available to suppliers, customers or other parties.
Who is BCM for:
All organizations should be able to ensure their critical functions as quickly as possible. However, this area of management is especially necessary for companies where service outages would be life-threatening or seriously financially harmful (for example, healthcare, IT companies, banks, insurance companies, manufacturing companies, etc.).
