NTC/411 Week 5 Final Team Assignment: Business Continuity Plan

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Running head: WEEK 5 FINAL TEAM ASSIGNMENT: BUSINESS CONTINUITY1Week 5 Final Team Assignment: Business Continuity PlanNTC/411Based on the Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for Riordan Manufacturing, explain the criticalimportance of disaster recovery planning, especially in terms of data protection and networksecurity. Discuss how the proposed recovery strategies and mitigation efforts ensure that theorganization remains operational during and after a crisis. Be sure to include key elements suchas risk analysis, recovery phases, and response planning. Additionally, evaluate the potentialchallenges Riordan may face in implementing these strategies and suggest any improvementsthat could be made to strengthen their BCP.Word Count Requirement:600-800 words

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WEEK 5 FINAL TEAM ASSIGNMENT: BUSINESS CONTINUITY2Week 5 Final Team Assignment: Business Continuity PlanModern businesses use information as a crucial commodity internally and in dealing withpartners and customers. This information must be safeguarded against disasters, regardless ofcause or origin. To effectively accomplish this, organizations rely on business continuity plans.Business continuity plans are part of the risk management process and identify vulnerabilitiesand weaknesses (threats), control measures against those threats, and appropriate disasterresponse and recovery planning. Using the virtual organization Riordan Manufacturing as a casestudy, Learning Team A will present a business continuity plan for potential threats to theRiordan information network.Riordan Manufacturing employs 550 people across three locations in the continentalUnited States and one overseas joint venture in Hangzhou, China. Furthermore, Riordan has arecognized status as a global plastic manufacturer with $46 million annual earning. All of theseaccolades are company commodities to be protected.The company’s main products are inplastic beverage containers produced at its plants in Albany, Georgia; and custom plasticproducts produced at its plant in Pontiac, Michigan. The jointventureat Hangzhou produces anddistributesplastic fan parts. Riordan Manufacturing’s research and development is placed at thecorporate headquarters In San Jose. Their main customers are aircraft manufacturers, theDepartment of Defense, automotive parts manufacturers, and appliance manufacturers.BCP OverviewA large number of catastrophic events in the last decade have demonstrated the alarmingvulnerability of the U.S. and other nations around the globe to terrorist activity and naturaldisasters.While thepredictability of these eventsvaries from one situation to another, it isimperativefor organizations of all sizesto establish emergency preparedness and response

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WEEK 5 FINAL TEAM ASSIGNMENT: BUSINESS CONTINUITY3programsthatminimize or eliminate the negative impact thatthesedisruptionsmaypotentiallycause. The following set of guidelinesforms a business continuity plan specific to RiordanManufacturing andis presented to provide standardoperatingproceduresthatmaintain businesscontinuity duringcrises, emergencies, or disaster that negatively affectRiordan’snormaloperations.From this foundation, Riordan cancontinuously improve a formal BusinessContinuity Plan (BCP) that:focuseson the safety and security ofRiordan’s employees;preventsinfrastructure damages;and maintainsbusiness continuity. Simultaneously, the BCP achievesthese objectiveswhile minimizing the impact onRiordan’sclients, suppliers, partners and/orconsultants. Additionally, these guidelines provide preventive procedures along with the basicstandard procedures for returning to normal operations following business disruption of anynature.JustificationDisaster recovery has always been associated with a company’s information technologysystems. This commonly includesservers, switches and data storage devices.As previouslymentioned, data is a commodity for business.Thenecessityofredundancy-whether inside thesame building or at a remote site–is self-evidentin the fact that “putting all the eggs in onebasket” rarely works out. Theeconomicrecession that hasaffected the globefor the last 10 yearscaused many corporations and small businessto eliminate the redundancies that were providedfor their data storage;the cost of maintainingthese redundanciesnegatively affected too manyprofits. Threatsoutsidea company’s network can cripple the company’s goodwill, reputation andthe ability to deliver their products to the customer, meet market expectation and customerdemands. Continuity planningmustmeet therequirementsofmodern and futurebusinesses, theircustomers and the entire organization.This entails a plan concrete enough to be employed now,

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