Contingency Planning…..Do you have Good Plan “B”?
Most of the business like to have events take place
routinely without to many changes, variations or problems, but do you think
that happens in your real practice? Events don’t always go routinely as
planned. The entire incident and its outcome differ according to the set of
circumstances, which varies every time. A contingency plan is designed to help
organization respond effectively to a significant future events, or situation
that may or may not happen.
So, risk management concept emerged as a part of
Contingency planning, which provides a dynamic attribute to the event and
circumstances. Risk management helps to reduce uncertainty, preserve assets,
and identify risk to achieve organizations mission. But it seems like
organization always omits the important factor on their plan, “What If?” This
two critical words are the essence of risk management and provide a different
perspective to Plan A. What if your Plan A does not work as planned? So, it is important to understand that risk
management practice provides the foundation for plan A and your Contingency
plan provides the platform for “Plan B”.
During the various practices, risk management
realized that different risk situations require different level of response and
different approach to deal the situation. As a result, organizations emerged
with emergency plans, crisis management plans, and disaster plans.
Emergency plan deals with contingencies, which may
occur or may not, so policies and procedures to reduce, prevent, and control
risk need to mentioned as the Plan A. so, Emergency Plan, or Plan B emerges to
respond to situations, if Plan A doesn’t go as planned accordingly.
A crisis occurs when the threat is not eliminated by
the emergency plan and some impact occurs. As risk management and contingency
plans focus on the control and manage risk per-loss, crisis management engages
in controlling and managing risks post-loss. So crisis management plan will
help organization to plan for after math event and will be an effective tool to
find out answers for what do you do now?.
References:
Michael
E. Whitman and Herbert J. Mattord, “ Management of Information
Security”, Published by Cengage Learning, Fourth Edition
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