A crucial starting point to develop an effective disaster recovery plan is to develop an efficient Business Impact Analysis (BIA).

A crucial starting point to develop an effective disaster recovery plan is to develop an efficient Business Impact Analysis (BIA). The BIA evaluates the potential effect of interruptions to an organization's critical business operations; therefore, it is an essential component of the process as it highlights system or functional vulnerabilities and conveys processes or strategies to minimize the impact of the incident. You will conduct a BIA for an organization. The organization can be a real company of your choice or a fictitious entity. The purpose is to have you engage and actively thinking about some of the components that are required to develop an effective BIA to guide disaster recovery planning efforts.