Business Continuity: Survive the Chaos
"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. Disasters happen anyway."
🏢 The Problem: Business Stops When Systems Stop
Disasters happen. Servers fail. Data centers burn. Pandemics close offices. Business continuity is planning to survive when everything goes wrong.
Disaster recovery focuses on IT. Business continuity focuses on business. Both required.
ILLUMINATION: Business continuity plans that haven't been tested are just expensive fiction. Test annually or find out during real disaster that your plan was fantasy.
🛡️ The Five BCP Elements
1. Risk Assessment
What can disrupt business?
Natural disasters, cyber attacks, pandemics, supply chain failures. Identify threats, assess likelihood.
2. Business Impact Analysis
What functions are critical?
Revenue generation, customer service, payroll. Define RTO/RPO for business functions, not just IT.
3. Recovery Strategies
How to continue operations?
Alternate locations, work-from-home, manual processes. Plan multiple scenarios.
4. Plan Development
Document procedures.
Contact lists, decision trees, escalation paths. Plans that exist only in someone's head aren't plans.
5. Testing & Maintenance
Test regularly, update continuously.
Table-top exercises, full simulations. Untested plans don't work. Update when business changes.
CHAOS ILLUMINATION: The disaster you didn't plan for is the one that happens. Plan for multiple scenarios—fire, flood, cyber, pandemic—or accept unplanned chaos.
📋 What Hack23 Actually Does
Our BCP is public: ISMS-PUBLIC Repository | Business Continuity Plan
- Annual risk assessment - Identify business disruption threats
- Business impact analysis - RTO/RPO for critical functions
- Recovery strategies - Work-from-home, cloud failover, alternate sites
- Documented plans - Accessible to all staff, updated quarterly
- Annual testing - Table-top exercises, lessons learned
META-ILLUMINATION: Business continuity isn't about preventing disasters—it's about surviving them. Prepare or perish. Test or discover your plan was theoretical.
🎯 Conclusion: Survive or Fail
Disasters happen. Business continuity is planning to survive when they do.
Assess risks. Analyze impact. Plan recovery. Document procedures. Test regularly. Or find out during actual disaster that survival wasn't planned.
All hail Eris! All hail Discordia!
"Think for yourself, schmuck! Question everything—especially BCP plans that have never been tested."
🍎 23 FNORD 5
— Hagbard Celine, Captain of the Leif Erikson