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<p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:24px"><strong>Business Continuity Standard Requirements</strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:20px">7 Sample Requirements:</span></span></p>
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<li style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000">Response plans (Incident Response and Business Continuity) and recovery plans (Incident Recovery and Disaster Recovery) are in place and managed? </span><br />
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<li style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000">Has specific responsibility been assigned for the execution of business continuity and disaster recovery plans (either within or outside of the information security function)?</span><br />
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<li style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000">Has the organization established an enterprise-wide business continuity/disaster recovery program that is consistent with requirements, policy, and applicable guidelines?</span><br />
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<li style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000">Testing, Maintaining & Re-assessing Business Continuity Plans: Are business continuity plans tested & updated regularly to ensure that they are up to date and effective?</span><br />
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<li style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000">Space-does the recovery site have adequate resources to accommodate the institutions employees by providing basic necessities and enabling them to conduct business?</span><br />
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<li style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000">How will management continue operations if employees are unable or unwilling to return to work due to personal losses, closed roads, or unavailable transportation?</span><br />
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<li style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="color:#000000">Have employees received cross training, and has the department defined back-up functions/roles that employees should perform if key personnel are not available?</span></li>
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<span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana"><span style="font-family:verdana">Excluding hired consultants and advisors from top management consulting firms, internal Business Continuity Self-Assessment work is typically undertaken by senior level positions with titles such as Enterprise Architect, Business Process Architects, Business Process Re-engineering Specialists and Business Architects.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-family:verdana"><span style="font-family:verdana">Statistics according to Glassdoor and <a href="" https:="" jobs="" www.indeed.com="">Indeed</a> tell these positions receive an average basic pay of $125,000. Daily rates of basic pay are computed by dividing an employee's annual pay by <a computing-hourly-rates-of-pay-using-the-2087-hour-divisor="" fact-sheets="" href="" https:="" pay-administration="" pay-leave="" policy-data-oversight="" www.opm.gov="">260 days</a>. The daily salary is then derived by dividing the annual salary of $125,000 by 260 days = a daily rate of $480.</span></span></span><br />
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