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Craft a BIA executive summary, follow this structure and format: a. Goals and purpose of the BIA – unique to your scenario b. Summary of Findings – business functions and assessment c. Prioritizations – critical, major, and minor classifications d. IT systems and applications impacted - to support the defined recovery time objectives

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A business impact analysis (BIA) is key part of the business continuity process that analyzes mission-critical business functions, and quantifies and identifies the impact a loss of those functions i.e. Financial functions, Operational functions, may have on the organization. Once risks to an organization have been identified, usually through business impact analysis, the next step in a bussiness impact analysis is to determine how the identified risks affect specific business operation.

A General summary of the findings of the attached BIA is that the most crucial systems are the website that is used primarily for customer's online purchases and customer service. Without these systems, our retailer will lose a significant amount of sales even if it is only down for one day. It is the reason that these are the most crucial parts of our infrastructure and should get plenty of resources allocated to ensure it is always up.

Each project maintainer might have specific guidelines for that project. In the end, it is up to maintainer discretion to decide issue priorities. Feature requests are very rarely "critical". They should usually be "normal". Support requests should never be marked "critical" or "major". If you believe you have run into a bug and it is preventing your site from working at all, post t as a bug report; however, be prepared for others to re-categorize it as appropriate.

When conducting a BIA, you are trying to access and align the affected IT system, applications, and resources to their required recovery time objectives(RTOs). The prioritization of the identified mission critical business functions will define what IT systems, applications, and resources are impacted. The RTO will drive what type of business continuity and recovery steps are needed to maintain IT operations within the specified time frames.

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