Business Continuity Planning Template
A practical framework to help your business keep operating through outages, disasters, or cyberattacks.
1. Critical Business Functions
• List the functions that must continue even in a crisis (payroll, client service, order fulfilment) • Identify the minimum staff and systems needed to keep each function running • Note any function that depends entirely on a single person, tool, or location
2. Risk Scenarios
• Ransomware or major cyberattack • Extended internet or power outage • Loss of physical office access (fire, flood, damage) • Loss of a key vendor, supplier, or cloud service provider
3. Response Plan
• Who is responsible for declaring an incident and leading the response? • What is the communication plan for staff, clients, and vendors during a disruption? • Where can staff work from if the primary office is unavailable? • What is the order in which systems should be restored?
4. Testing & Maintenance
• Schedule at least one tabletop exercise per year to walk through the plan • Review and update contact lists, vendor details, and system inventories regularly • Document lessons learned after any real incident or test, and update the plan accordingly
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