What are technologies, risks, trends, and regulations etc. necessitating business continuity and disaster management applications?
IT infrastructures have been widely used in our era and corporates have moved their core businesses into IT environment. Processes have become speedier and customers’ expectations have risen. Due to online services, number of people going to branch bank offices decreased. Therefore corporates have started to provide 7/24 service. Many standards have been developed to guarantee 7/24 critical services. ISO 22301 Business Continuity is an internationally accepted standard. Banking regulation and supervision agency (BDDK) has some business continuity investments for the banks in Turkey. Similarly, many organizations and institutions establish ISO 27001 Information Security Management System in Turkey,they comply with business continuity requirements. Public organizations providing e-state services carry out business continuity and disaster management studies.
What should the companies do during planning stage, what should their priorities and corporate analysis be?
If a company would like to conduct a study within Business Continuity and Disaster Management scope, first of all they should analyse their existing infrastructure and processes. They should identify that what current procedures are, how the services are conveyed to the end-user, what critical applications are. After that, potential threats against defined critical product and services, system vulnerabilities should be determined.
Commencing a business continuity and disaster management project for overall services and processes will be both complex and expensive. Therefore, it is important to focus on correct product and services and associated risks during due diligence analysis.
Can business continuity and disaster management implemented individually or should they be considered as a whole?
Disaster management is a study aiming at survival and recovery of critical services and processes in case a disaster. Business continuity is a study group aiming at continuing critical service and processes without any interruption or at a minimum service level that the company defines. Business continuity covers disaster management conceptually.
Corporates may prefer only disaster management in accordance with service criticality and cost or they may perform business continuity and disaster management simultaneously.
Do Turkish companies have business continuity and disaster management culture? What should be done to develop this culture? What do you do in this manner?
Disaster management has been already adopted by Turkish companies years ago; transition into business continuity concept has become more popular within last two years. As 4S Information Technologies, we provide awareness activities especially in public institutions in order to raise the awareness about business continuity and disaster management culture. We track relevant business continuity standards, we obtain required certifications, and we transfer our knowledge to our clients.
We follow latest technologies on business continuity and disaster management, we provide consultancy about how these technologies can be applied in our clients’ site, whether they are applicable or not via various sessions or during project scope.
Business Continuity and Disaster Management
What are technologies, risks, trends, and regulations etc. necessitating business continuity and disaster management applications?
IT infrastructures have been widely used in our era and corporates have moved their core businesses into IT environment. Processes have become speedier and customers’ expectations have risen. Due to online services, number of people going to branch bank offices decreased. Therefore corporates have started to provide 7/24 service. Many standards have been developed to guarantee 7/24 critical services. ISO 22301 Business Continuity is an internationally accepted standard. Banking regulation and supervision agency (BDDK) has some business continuity investments for the banks in Turkey. Similarly, many organizations and institutions establish ISO 27001 Information Security Management System in Turkey,they comply with business continuity requirements. Public organizations providing e-state services carry out business continuity and disaster management studies.
What should the companies do during planning stage, what should their priorities and corporate analysis be?
If a company would like to conduct a study within Business Continuity and Disaster Management scope, first of all they should analyse their existing infrastructure and processes. They should identify that what current procedures are, how the services are conveyed to the end-user, what critical applications are. After that, potential threats against defined critical product and services, system vulnerabilities should be determined.
Commencing a business continuity and disaster management project for overall services and processes will be both complex and expensive. Therefore, it is important to focus on correct product and services and associated risks during due diligence analysis.
Can business continuity and disaster management implemented individually or should they be considered as a whole?
Disaster management is a study aiming at survival and recovery of critical services and processes in case a disaster. Business continuity is a study group aiming at continuing critical service and processes without any interruption or at a minimum service level that the company defines. Business continuity covers disaster management conceptually.
Corporates may prefer only disaster management in accordance with service criticality and cost or they may perform business continuity and disaster management simultaneously.
Do Turkish companies have business continuity and disaster management culture? What should be done to develop this culture? What do you do in this manner?
Disaster management has been already adopted by Turkish companies years ago; transition into business continuity concept has become more popular within last two years. As 4S Information Technologies, we provide awareness activities especially in public institutions in order to raise the awareness about business continuity and disaster management culture. We track relevant business continuity standards, we obtain required certifications, and we transfer our knowledge to our clients.
We follow latest technologies on business continuity and disaster management, we provide consultancy about how these technologies can be applied in our clients’ site, whether they are applicable or not via various sessions or during project scope.