Business Continuity: Impact Analysis, RTO/RPO & Recovery Priorities
Run a business impact analysis in a spreadsheet: map process dependencies, cost an hour of outage, chart how impact grows over time, derive MTD and RTO from impact thresholds, pick an RPO by trading backup cost against data loss, rank recovery priorities, test strategies against expected loss avoided and grade an exercise against the RTOs: 8 graded labs on one fictional parcel company. Educational; not affiliated with ISO.
The first lesson is free — no account needed.
About this course
A business continuity course that runs a business impact analysis for one fictional parcel company in a spreadsheet, for continuity planners, risk managers and IT service owners. You map which processes depend on which resources and find the single point of failure, put a dollar figure on an hour of downtime from lost revenue, penalties and overtime, project the impact of 1, 4, 24 and 72 hour outages into impact curves, derive the maximum tolerable downtime and an RTO with a safety margin, choose an RPO by trading backup cost against the expected cost of lost data, rank recovery priorities with weighted scores and tiers, test recovery strategies against expected loss avoided and grade a disaster-recovery exercise against the RTOs. ISO 22301 is referred to in general terms, no affiliation with ISO. The first lab is free.
Lessons
- Process Inventory & Dependencies: What Needs WhatFree
- Financial Impact per Hour of Outage: Lost Revenue, Penalties & Overtime Pro
- Impact over Time: 1 h, 4 h, 24 h, 72 h and the Impact Curve Pro
- Maximum Tolerable Downtime & RTO from Impact Thresholds Pro
- RPO: Data-Loss Cost vs Backup Frequency Cost Pro
- Recovery Priorities: Weighted Scores, Ranks & Tiers Pro
- Recovery Strategies: Annual Cost vs Expected Loss Avoided Pro
- Exercise Results vs RTO: Pass/Fail, Pass Rate & Highlighted Failures Pro