Selecting a Business Continuity Planning Tool

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Selecting a Business Continuity Planning Tool

• Introductory Comments
• EDUCAUSE eLive Presentation
• February 27, 2007

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Introduction Agenda

• Objectives and Format of Todays Session
• Why a Business Continuity Planning Tool?

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Objective of Todays Session

• Today well cover
• The selection process for choosing a BCP Tool
• Important criteria in selecting a BCP Tool
• Lessons learned from past selections
• Today is NOT about
• Pros and Cons of specific vendors or tools
• Discussion of tool deployment process (this may
  come later)

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Format of Todays Session

• Overview and Background (this presentation)
• Tool Selection Process Experiences
• Katina Blue, CBCP
• Director of Business Continuity and Disaster
  Recovery, North Carolina State University
• Betty Hawkins, CBCP, SSCP
• Senior Project Manager, University of South
  Carolina

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Assumptions

• Throughout the presentations today, we make the
  assumption that youre familiar with the
  following concepts
• Business Continuity (BC) vs. Disaster Recovery
  (DR)
• Incident vs. Disaster
• Table Top Exercise
• Hot Site Rehearsal
• Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
• Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

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Business Continuity Planning in Higher Ed

• There may be a silo approach
• Lack of a consistent planning approach across
  departments
• The plans may not be maintained consistently

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Why Use a BCP Tool?

• Provide a common platform for use across the
  enterprise
• Use a standardized approach to continuity
  planning
• Provide structure and guidance to the planning
  process
• Integrate Business Continuity Planning, Emergency
  Response Planning, and Disaster Recovery Planning

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High Level Considerations

• Ease of Use
• Flexibility to meet the needs of individual
  schools and departments
• Ability to integrate with existing systems and
  other business continuity planning and event
  management tools
• Decide whether to choose hosted option or run
  in-house

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What Questions Do You Have?

• What questions do you have before we turn to our
  first panelist?