Business Continuity & IT Disaster Recovery Planning

Archer Business Continuity & IT Disaster Recovery Planning (BC/DR) enables you to perform risk assessments and document and test business continuity and IT disaster recovery plans that target your organization, including business processes, locations, IT applications and infrastructure, and information assets. This use case provides a coordinated, consistent, and automated approach to business continuity and IT disaster recovery planning and execution, allowing you to respond swiftly in crisis situations to protect your ongoing operations.

For the key features and benefits of this use case, see the Data Sheet on the Archer Community: https://community.rsa.com/docs/DOC-40093

Business Continuity & IT Disaster Recovery Planning is a use case in the Business Resiliency solution area. The following sections describe the use cases that Business Continuity & IT Disaster Recovery Planning requires as a prerequisite, which use cases you can upgrade to as your BC/DR program matures, and which use cases in other solution areas you can integrate for additional business context and functionality.

Prerequisite and Next Use Cases

The following table shows how this use case fits into the overall Business Resiliency solution area.
Prereq, current, next use cases

Issues Management

BC&DR Planning

Crisis Management

  • Consolidate and coordinate findings and remediation plans
  • Manage exceptions

Business Impact Analysis

  • Determine the criticality recovery objectives of business processes.
  • Provides an automated process for identifying business processes that do not yet have a BIA.
  • Develop detailed business process recovery plans or IT disaster recovery plans
  • Use automated workflow for reviewing and testing plans
  • Track and manage crisis events
  • Send emergency notifications to members of the crisis team, and others that need to be notified
  • Complete a post-event Lessons Learned Assessment

Incident Management

  • Report and manage incidents to their resolution
  • Assign investigators
  • Track and monitor legal involvement
  • Attach reports and evidence
  • Escalate an incident to a crisis event

Related use cases in other solution areas

The following table shows additional features that are available if you have the specified use cases licensed.

Application

Use Cases

Primary Purpose of the Relationship

Crisis Events

Crisis Management

View information about crisis events that resulted in activation of a BC/DR plan, including links to all related crisis events, links to the activated plans, and the results from the last time that the plan was activated.

Note: This feature is only available if the Crisis Management use case is licensed.

The following additional resources are available for this use case:

The following resources are also available for the Business Resiliency solution area:

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