Business Impact Analysis Report

The Business Impact Analysis or BIA is a formal document which summarizes the consequences of any activity, resource, or location being disrupted.

By allowing us to compare the effects of disruptions, the BIA allows us to determine which activities, resources, and locations are most critical to the organization's operations, and to prioritize the allocation of resources to the most critical activities when a disruption occurs.

For the purpose of determining the cost of a disruption, it is assumed that every activity affected will be recovered by its Recovery Time Objective. If no value is specified, then the cost cannot be computed.

Table Headings

Heading	Description
Activity, Resource, Location	The name of the activity, resource, or location.
RTO	The Recovery Time Objective assigned to this activity or resource.
Direct Cost	The direct cost of a disruption to this activity or resource.
Relocation Set-up Cost	The cost involved in moving this activity to an alternate location.
Relocation Daily Cost	The additional cost involved in performing this activity at an alternative location.
Replacement Cost	The cost of replacing a resource.
Estimated Cost	The total cost of a disruption (assuming this activity is recovered at its Recovery Time Objective) - see note below.
Affected Activities, Resources, Consequences	The dependent activities and resources which will be affected by this being disrupted, as well as any consequences that might occur..
Responsibility	The Organization Unit responsible for the Activity, Resource or Location and thus responsible for controlling this risk.

Notes

Not all columns are shown in all tables.
If a value is shown in red, then data is missing.
The total cost of disruption is derived from the timeline associated with a disruption the activity, resource, or location. Click on the activity, resource, or location name to find the timeline.
To edit information shown in the table, you need to edit the underlying threat or threatened item from which the data was obtained. Click on a threat name or threatened item name to see the underlying data.