Overview#
Maintaining critical operations during disruptions and crises. Aligned with disaster recovery, crisis communications, and prioritized runbooks.
Core objectives#
- Establish shared definitions of Business Continuity for security, engineering, and leadership teams.
- Connect Business Continuity activities to measurable risk reduction and resilience goals.
- Provide onboarding notes so new team members can quickly understand how Business Continuity works here.
Implementation notes#
- Identify the primary owner for Business Continuity, the data sources involved, and the systems affected.
- Document the minimum viable process, tooling, and runbooks that keep Business Continuity healthy.
- Map Business Continuity practices to standards such as ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF, or CIS Controls.
Operational signals#
- Leading indicators: early warnings that Business Continuity might degrade (e.g., backlog growth, noisy alerts, or missed SLAs).
- Lagging indicators: realized impact that shows Business Continuity failed or needs investment (e.g., incidents, audit findings).
- Feedback loops: retrospectives and metrics reviews that tune Business Continuity continuously.
Related practices#
- Align Business Continuity with defense-in-depth planning, threat modeling, and disaster recovery tests.
- Communicate updates to stakeholders through concise briefs, dashboards, and internal FAQs.
- Pair Business Continuity improvements with tabletop exercises to validate expectations.