bcp individual risk assessment assignment

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This is the first individual assignment that will start to inform your phased group activity. Using the business scenario information provided by your instructor, each member of the group will identify and prioritize four critical business processes for each business area and perform a risk assessment following the Risk Assessment Form provided by the instructor and as identified by further research.

• Your business areas should be well defined and appropriate to the case studies. The four critical processes per business area should be clearly explained and correctly relates to the case study.
• You should conduct a risk assessment for the business area and four critical processes, ensuring that these are well defined and appropriate to the business scenario provided in your content area.
• The risk assessment categories (columns) should be complete and measures clearly defined.
• The mitigation strategy, additional measures, and contingency plan for the risk should be well defined and mapped to the business area and four critical processes.

Additional Guidance for Completing the Spreadsheet:

This assignment should focus on man-made or natural disasters as you identify risks. Let me provide you with an example.

IMPORTANT!

If you have “Accounting” as your business area and have “Collecting customer payments” as a process, you then must identify risks that could impact continuity and/or disaster recovery looking at man-made or natural disasters. A mistake commonly made is to take this example given here and say that the risk is “customer isn’t making a payment”. I want you to tell me “why” – was it because of a cyber intrusion or flood or fire? Just telling me that the customer has financial problems isn’t the intent of this assignment. It is important to read the BCP/DR Business Scenario provided in your content area for OptiPress. There was a fire at Host Point (web hosting service) in Philadelphia. This prompted the CEO to ask what would happen if it occurred at OptiPress or any of the other hubs. So please make this the focus of your assignment. You can have more than one risk associated with a process.

Here is guidance on populating the spreadsheet:

What is a business area in this scenario? Marketing, Human Resources, Payroll, etc. You are to list these (and you can use your own names or labels), then identify at least four critical business processes for each area (more than four processes needed for full credit -see grading rubric below). For example:

Accounting:

• Creating billing invoices
• Management company financial assets
• Producing financial reports
• Collecting customer payments

After laying out at least four processes (these are just examples), you will then work through the matrix. Without this, it is hard to just take a generalized business area and provide mitigation steps. So, on your risk assessment spreadsheet, please ensure that you state the business areas and then provide at least four processes for each of these areas. You will then assess the risk for each of the four or more processes (man-made or natural) as you traverse across the matrix