Business:Concepts:Principle:PRINC-0004: Develop For Business Continuity
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Categories : Business
Title [wiki] : Develop for Business Continuity
Statement : Organisations operations are maintained in spite of system interruptions.
Rationale [wiki] : As system operations become more pervasive, we become more dependent on them; therefore, we must consider the reliability of such systems throughout their design and use.
Business organisations throughout the sector must be provided with the capability to continue their business functions regardless of external events.
Hardware failure, natural disasters, and data corruption should not be allowed to disrupt or stop sector activities.
The sector business functions must be capable of operating on alternative information delivery mechanisms.
Impact [wiki] : Dependency on shared system applications mandates that the risks of business interruption must be established in advance and managed. Management includes but is not limited to periodic reviews, testing for vulnerability and exposure, or designing mission-critical services to assure business function continuity through redundant or alternative capabilities.
Recoverability, redundancy, and maintainability should be addressed at the time of design.
Applications must be assessed for criticality and impact on the enterprise mission, in order to determine what level of continuity is required and what corresponding recovery plan is necessary.
Resources [wiki] : * Principle
* See TOGAF Principle 4.
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