5.4 Business resumption is the process of restoring business activity to an acceptable level, and then to a normal level after an emergency event has disrupted normal operations. 5.5 Business impact analysis is the evaluation of the quantitative effect on the organization if certain business functions or application systems cannot be performed. 6.1 Raise the awareness within their organization of the need to protect the State's investment in information resources and related business processes. 6.3 Perform a Business Impact Analysis to define the agency's critical applications and potential financial and other risks associated with the disruption of these applications. 6.4 Develop, implement, maintain and test business contingency plans for mission-critical information and telecommunication systems.
Agencies are responsible and accountable for their own business recovery plan.
6.5 Develop agency business contingency plans capable of being incorporated into an over-all state wide business contingency plan. All data resources are to be included within the scope of these planning efforts. 6.6 Train employees in the implementation and execution of the business contingency plan. Recovery teams should exercise the procedures documented in the plan. 6.7 Actively pursue means of mitigating business disruptions.