eBRP Toolkit: Plan Development
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eBRP Toolkit provides utilities for defining a structured approach to plan development
within organizations. Creating Business Continuity Plans, Disaster Recovery Plans
or any other Business Continuity Management Plan is simplified using eBRP Toolkit.
Features incorporated in eBRP Toolkit include:
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- Embedding documents - regardless of size or format, for easy retrieval in a crisis
situation
- Attaching URLs to connect plans to regulatory or emergency data, on-line technical
support, vendor web sites or anything available on the Internet
- Cut, Copy &, Pasting from existing text using "right-click" of the
mouse
- Assigning roles, responsibilities & access permissions by teams – rather
than individuals
- Creating Checklists within plan procedures to facilitate fast execution in a crisis
- Cross linking to procedures or sections in other plans within eBRP Toolkit
- Printing - any plan, or part of a plan - or saving in TXT, RTF, PDF, and/or HTML
formats
- Re-using existing documents and files
- Customer -defined plan Templates
- Automated Tables of Contents
- E-mail Notification for on-going plan maintenance
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All elements of an organization - and every level of its plans - are displayed in
tree-view (as in Microsoft Windows (tm) Explorer) This familiar display bolsters
user-friendliness and more intuitive navigation throughout eBRP Toolkit. Click here
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eBRP Toolkit: Business Impact Analysis (d-BIA)
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At the core of eBRP Toolkit is "Business Process Modeling" -
a simulation of an organization created by interconnecting and defining the interdependencies
of the core elements - infrastructure, people, technology and processes.eBRP Toolkit
can be used to generate "what if?" dynamic Business Impact Analysis (d-BIA)
scenarios to analyze:
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- What is the impact on the business if a facility is inaccessible?
- Which processes are critical if an incident happens on a particular day?
- Which business functions are impacted in an application server outage?
eBRP Toolkit includes over 100 standard reports, more than 20 of which identify
business impacts and dependencies on critical customers, suppliers, services level
agreements, regulatory compliance policies, non-IT resources and IT applications
used by critical processes.
Business Impact Analysis (d-BIA) and plan development are integrated tightly
utilities within eBRP Toolkit. Data gathered through the d-BIA is easily
usable in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan development to assure viability.
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eBRP Toolkit: Risk Assessment
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eBRP Toolkit’s Risk Assessment Utility is based on the NIST (National Institute
of Standards and Technology) qualitative methodology This 9-step analytical method
allows Planners to analyze the risks and interdependencies within their organization
in a dynamic, end-to-end planning utility. Analyses can be conducted from any or
all of four (4) perspectives: Facilities, Processes, People and Technology.
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- Step 1 is an asset inventory of the organization using
Process Modeling.
- Step 2 identifies Threats to the organization, while
Step 3 identifies Vulnerabilities to those Threats.
- Once identified, Threats and Vulnerabilities may be further clarified by their
degree of mitigation through technical and/or administrative controls in
Step 4: Control Analysis.
- Step 5 identifies the Likelihood of each risk occurring.
- In Step 6, users rate the Impact of such an occurrence
- using the standard drop down menu components that come with eBRP Toolkit, or by
customizing their own qualitative rating scale.
- In multi-functional Step 7, eBRP Toolkit supplements Risk
Determination with the capability to provide both Risk Status (Open/Closed/Pending,
etc.) and to rank the Priority of the Risk.
- Additional control Recommendations are established in Step 8
of the process.
- Generation of dynamic reports and documentation, Step 9,
provides one of the eBRP Toolkit Risk Assessment’s most important and valuable
features.
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eBRP Toolkit: Technology Modeling
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Technology Modeling incorporated in eBRP Toolkit maps the IT sub-systems (hardware,
networks, software) to Business Processes and Functions. Mapping technology to business
allows dynamic end-to-end plan development efforts.
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Technology Modeling allows IT Process owners to create a map of interdependencies
between the hardware, software, network and applications. Further eBRP Toolkit provides
the technology staff the ability to identify and document hardware redunduncy, IP
addresses, software versions levels, network circuit identifiers, application users
and other asset related information.
Using ITIL standard's best practice framework, eBRP Toolkit provides additional
functionality such as change management , asset management and the ability to conduct
gap analysis.
eBRP Toolkit provides a bridge between business and technology to empower planners
for creating IT focused Disaster Recovery plans that is in line with business requirements.
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eBRP Toolkit: Analysis | Planning | Notification | Incident
Management
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eBRP Notification tool automates any manual notification procedure, regardless of
complexity or reach. Call-outs are activated directly from within eBRP Toolkit,
initiating hundreds, or even thousands of notifications within minutes.
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Together with DCC (Dialogics Communication Corp) and 3N
(National Notification Network), leaders in critical communications technology,
eBRP Notification is able to deliver an accurate and consistent message to vital
responders in a crisis, and more importantly, gather feedback necessary for timely
and appropriate action.
As an eBRP user, you can select either of our fine partners to host your emergency
notification process and integrate with eBRP Toolkit. Call lists, scripts and notification
"scenarios" are maintained within eBRP Toolkit. Planners no longer need
to update contact information in separate databases; simply keep eBRP Toolkit updated
and all notification data is automatically shared with your preferred notification
engine - DCC or 3N.
This highly integrated, streamlined information exchange allows Responders to trigger
notification from within eBRP Toolkit using pre-established or ad hoc event scenarios.
Cut notification time from hours to seconds - leaving Responders free to take action
instead of making phone calls.
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Events and Resources
eBRP Toolkit is winner of the 2007 Continuity Software of the Year Award, sponsored by Continuity Insurance & Risk Magazine in UK.
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