Assessing Business Continuity Risks

评估业务持续性风险<br>确保企业的持续，尽管破坏能力是当今企业面临领袖的众多挑战之一。是否行动的威胁是天然的或人为的，有意或无意，业务连续性规划的目标是保护组织免受意外突发事件等情况。风险业务连续性一般可以划分为自然的，人为的，或生物。在某些情况下，<br>灾害，如网络资源或洪水可以是天然的或人为的，但反应在任何情况相似：<br><br>环境灾害<br>环境灾害有许多形式，从极端天气条件，如飓风，龙卷风，暴风雪或，或由于其他原因，如洪水，地震，网络资源，火山喷发，有毒气体排放，化学品泄漏，等等。对于一些环境灾害，如火山爆发和洪水，通常有一些预先警告，如水位上涨的河流或逐渐增加的火山活动。在这种情况下，企业能够采取预防措施，安全的人，数据和实物资产。在其他时候，自然灾害是意外，如发生大地震或有毒气体释放。在这些时候，人们必须立即作出反应，以挽救生命和经营性资产;

Assessing Business Continuity Risks<br>Ensuring an organization’s ability to continue despite a disruption is one of the many challenges facing business leaders today. Whether the threat to operations is natural or manmade, accidental or intentional, the goal of business continuity planning is to protect the organization from unforeseen emergencies and other circumstances. Risks to business continuity can generally be classified as natural, manmade, or biological. In some cases,<br>disasters such as fi res or floods can be either natural or manmade, but response is similar in either situation:<br><br>Environmental Disasters <br>Environmental disasters come in many forms, from extreme weather conditions as in hurricanes, tornadoes, or blizzards, or from other causes such as floods, earthquakes, fi res, volcanic eruptions, toxic gas releases, chemical spills, and so on. For some environmental disasters, such as volcanic eruptions and floods, there is usually some advance warning, such as rising water levels in a river or gradually increasing volcanic activity. In these cases, businesses are able to take precautionary steps to secure people, data, and physical assets. At other times, natural disasters are unexpected, such as a major earthquake or toxic gas release. At those times, people must react instantly to save lives and business assets; the best way to do this is with a pre-established plan for people to follow so they don’t have to make decisions under stressful conditions.

评估业务连续性风险<br>确保一个组织在受到干扰的情况下能够继续发展，是当今商界领袖面临的众多挑战之一。无论对运营的威胁是自然的还是人为的，是偶然的还是有意的，业务连续性规划的目标是保护组织不受不可预见的紧急情况和其他情况的影响。业务连续性风险通常可以分为自然风险、人为风险或生物风险。在某些情况下，<br>灾害，如洪水或洪水，既可以是自然灾害，也可以是人为灾害，但在这两种情况下的反应是相似的：<br>环境灾害<br>环境灾害有多种形式，来自飓风、龙卷风或暴风雪等极端天气条件，或来自洪水、地震、洪水、火山爆发、有毒气体释放、化学品泄漏等其他原因。对于一些环境灾害，如火山爆发和洪水，通常会有一些预警，如河流水位上升或火山活动逐渐增加。在这些情况下，企业能够采取预防措施来保护人员、数据和实物资产的安全。其他时候，自然灾害是意想不到的，比如大地震或有毒气体的释放。在那些时候，人们必须立即做出反应，以挽救生命和商业资产；最好的方法是制定一个预先确定的计划，让人们遵循，这样他们就不必在压力条件下做出决定。