Module- SLP: BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY
The following example demonstrates how to analyze a particular organization/industry/market's preparedness for business continuity. Note that such a preparedness report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) was prepared four years after the policy statement on business continuity for trading market in 2003 by Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Were the policies stated by SEC in 2003 implemented by 2007?
SEC (2003), Policy Statement: Business Continuity Planning for Trading Markets, Securities and Exchange Commission Release No. 34-48545; File No. S7-17-03.
GAO (2007), Financial Market Preparedness: Significant Progress Has Been Made, but Pandemic Planning and Other Challenges Remain. United States Government Accountability Office.
Practicing business continuity planning and disaster recovery to one's own experiences offers an opportunity to apply what you've learned to the real world. Can you choose a particular information system security domain of your organization or industry and apply what you learned from the case readings and the SLP example? You can choose to assess comprehensively, or you can choose not to cover all the aspects of business continuity but to focus on two or three major perspectives and go much more in depth. You can choose the same security domain in the previous SLP assignment(s) in this course, or start with a new one.
SLP Assignment Expectations
Please write a 2- to 5-page paper titled:
"Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for ______ (your chosen information system security domain in your chosen organization/industry): Challenges and Solutions"
Please address the following issues:
1. Special requirements of business continuity planning and disaster recovery in your chosen information system security domain in your chosen organization/industry if there are any.
2. Two or three major perspectives of business continuity and disaster recovery that you choose to go in depth to discuss.
3. One or two major lessons learned from the example that you'd like to apply in your own business continuity and disaster recovery issue here.
4. Key challenges and solutions of business continuity planning and disaster recovery.