For organizations that don't have robust or any business continuity plans, where do you start?

Name: Don't have a BCP? Here's where to start.
Uploaded: 2025-03-03T13:01:13+00:00
Duration: 49 s
Channel: Aaron Pritz
Description: If you don't have a business continuity plan, start by assuming your critical systems go down for a week. Then map out what you'll tell customers and…

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Don't have a BCP? Here's where to start.

3 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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If you don't have a business continuity plan, start by assuming your critical systems go down for a week. Then map out what you'll tell customers and employees, who you'll call for help, and how you'll recover. Skip disaster recovery for now.

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Separate disaster recovery from the conversation, assume systems could be down for a week, then determine what to tell the public, employees, and customers, identify who to call for help, and set expectations for recovery.

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for the organizations that don't have robust or any business continuity plans, where do you start?
So I, I think take disaster recovery out of the conversation for a second and, and separate those two. I'll go back to where I started in the beginning. I think if you're gonna guide somebody, there's that context of assume things are broken for a week. I think that's a good lens to look at it. What are you gonna tell the public? What are you gonna tell your employees? What are you gonna tell the, the customers that use your services? And thinking through it from that lens. And if you can get comfortable with starting there going, hey, am I okay telling people that this is gonna be a down for a week? Okay, I can get there. Or maybe it's what, what's that next step? Who are they gonna call? Who are they gonna ask for help? Or what should they expect afterwards? I think that's the context and the lens that people can think through in a more practical sense.