Keeping a business up and running during a problem takes the right people for the job. When it comes to cyber resilience through tough times, many things come down to the human factor. We focused on that in the first piece in this series, but it also makes a big difference to the second topic: business continuity. So, how do you make sure that your business processes and functions keep running during a disruption?
Where Cyber Resilience Meets Business Decisions
First, what is a business function? Information security managers and staff need to know because it’s important for them to be comfortable with the language of business. Doing so is simply a part of creating and managing a strong cybersecurity program. Part of that language includes knowing the nuances between business continuity, disaster recovery and continuous operations. The IBM System Storage Business Continuity: Part 1 Planning Guide provides some very helpful guidance in Section 1.1 showing these nuances. For work, you may have to be able to explain them. They could come in handy when you start looking for internal backing for your cyber resilience efforts.
In essence, a business function is the set of tasks a department performs to produce an output. This is a very basic explanation, different for different jobs. But for our purposes, it suffices. A business process is often a set of chained tasks performed by people or equipment to produce a service or a product.
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