Senior management at Health Network has
decided they want a business impact analysis (BIA) that examines the company’s
data center and a business continuity plan (BCP). Because of the importance of
risk management to the organization, management has allocated all funds for
both efforts. Your team has their full support, as well as permission to
contact any of them directly for participation or inclusion in the BIA or BCP.
Winter storms on the East Coast have affected
the ability of Health Network employees to reach the Arlington offices in a
safe and timely manner. However, no BCP plan currently exists to address
corporate operations. The Arlington office is the primary location for business
units, such as Finance, Legal, and Customer Support. Some of the corporate
systems, such as the payroll and accounting applications, are located only in
the corporate offices. Each corporate location can access the other two, and
remote virtual private networks (VPNs) exist between each production data
center and the corporate locations.
The corporate systems are not currently being
backed up and should be addressed in the new plan. The BCP should also include
some details regarding how the BCP will be tested. 
This part of the project researches BIAs and BCPs.
Develop a draft BIA plan for the Health Network that
focuses on the data center. The BIA should identify:
Critical business functions
Critical resources
Maximum acceptable outage (MAO) and impact
Recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time
objective (RTO)
Develop a draft BCP that could recover business
operations while efforts are ongoing to restart previous operations. You
may use or repurpose a BCP template you find online. Include a description
of how you would test the plan.
Submission
Requirements
Format: Microsoft Word (or compatible)
Font: Arial, size 12, double-spaced
Citation style: APA
Estimated length: 6–10 pages
Self-Assessment
Checklist 
§ I created a basic BIA
that focuses on the data center.
§ I identified critical
business functions; critical resources; and the MAO, RPO, and RTO for the BIA.
§ I created a basic BCP
for the given scenario that includes a description of how to test the plan.
§ I created a
professional, well-developed draft report with proper
documentation, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
§ I included citations
for all sources used in the report.
§ I followed the
submission guidelines.