Practitioner''s Guide to Business Impact Analysis

This book illustrates the importance of business impact analysis, which covers risk assessment, and moves towards better understanding of the business environment, industry specific compliance, legal and regulatory landscape and the need for business continuity. The book provides charts, checklists and flow diagrams that give the roadmap to collect, collate and analyze data, and give enterprise management the entire mapping for controls that comprehensively covers all compliance that the enterprise is subject to have. The book helps professionals build a control framework tailored for an enterprise that covers best practices and relevant standards applicable to the enterprise.

Presents a practical approach to assessing security, performance and business continuity needs of the enterpriseHelps readers understand common objectives for audit, compliance, internal/external audit and assurance.Demonstrates how to build a customized controls framework that fulfills common audit criteria, business resilience needs and internal monitoring for effectiveness of controlsPresents an Integrated Audit approach to fulfill all compliance requirements