IT Business Continuity Documents

IT Business Continuity Documents assures that during and after a disaster, there will be a documented roadmap toward returning to normal. Unfortunately, Business Continuity (BC) has been made into a complicated subject. And not surprisingly, there are a whole lot of books out there to cover all those in-depth methodologies. IT Business Continuity Documents is not one of those books. What this book does provide is a practical approach to handling unexpected events and disasters through the use of a documented Business Continuity Strategy.

 This book provides all you need to know to make your base Business Continuity Strategy a reality. It accomplishes this by teaching you about Business Continuity as you create your documents. The result is a fully documented IT Business Continuity Strategy. 

IT Business Continuity Documents is for everyone who has Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery in their job title. It’s for:

• The IT colleague who just noticed the words “Business Continuity” in his/her yearly to-do project list.
• The Data Center Administrator who just had a “bad server” day.
• The IT Supervisor who wants to sleep well at night.
• The IT Director who wants to keep his/her job after a major disaster.
• The Site Leader that wants to followup on the IT Business Continuity Strategy state.

This small book (2-hour read) provides a clear path on what is required to get your IT Business Continuity documentation underway. It is written in simple terms and follows a logical order that will take you through the creation of the following four documents: 

• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
• Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
• Disaster Recovery Script (DRS)

It then ties in the administration of these documents under a Standard Operating Procedure. Finally, this book is all about keeping I.T. simple.  I will go over what to consider and what to include when creating these Business Continuity documents. I promise I won’t surprise you halfway through with some gimmicky offer. It’s all here. We won’t be re-inventing the wheel, and I won’t bore you with the latest methodology hype. This book is a simple documented plan for the design, creation, and maintenance of IT Business Continuity documents.

I won’t just cover how to write the BC documents; I will explain the reasoning behind these documents. This book is not template-based; it’s an informative guide on how to create your BC documents. It’s my goal that with the information and guidance included in this book, you successfully write your BC documents. Templates seldom fit specific requirements and provide little or no reasoning on why things are the way they are. In this book, you will find all the information required to write BC documents that you can easily explain to your team, boss, and external auditors. You will understand:

• How IT Disaster Recovery ties back into Business Continuity. 
• When to activate one type of BC document and when to apply the other. 
• How the BIA, BCP, DRP, and DRS documents relate to one another. 
• How to implement these Business Continuity documents without incurring in costly consultant services. 

Think it’s impossible? It’s not; it’s all here in under 100 pages. This approach to Business Continuity will fit in perfectly to most methodologies out there. So if the rest of the business gets on board at a later date, all your hard work won’t be lost. BC documents created using the approach described in this book have been part of quality audits that have resulted in zero findings.

Note: With the purchase of the paperback you receive a free download of the kindle format ebook.