Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

Overview

Key Features

To navigate to Unified Compliance Blueprint module, please follow the instructions below:

Step 1: Log in to CyTech - AQUILA

Step 2: Click on Cyber Compliance

Figure 1. Overview

Step 3: Choose Business Impact Analysis (BIA)

Figure 1.1 Risk Management

Step 4: Hover into leftmost panel to view all the Risk Management sections. This Process is applicable in all navigating into a Module.

Figure 1.2 Risk Management Navigation

Dashboard

This dashboard provides a snapshot of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA), highlighting the status of risk assessments for key assets. It tracks the downtime costs of these assets, the impact on goodwill, compliance, and safety, and breaks down the financial effects like revenue loss and productivity declines. It also assesses the impact on customers, staff, and partners, offering a clear view of business vulnerabilities and aiding in effective risk management.

Figure 2. Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Dashboard

1. Impact Analysis

• TheThis Impactsection Analysisgives isa categorizedsummary of the total assessments made, divided into three status:categories: Assessed,Assessed, To Bebe Assessed,Assessed, and Draft.Draft. The numbers reflect how many assets or processes have gone through different stages of impact analysis.

2. Total Downtime Cost - by Asset

• TheseA aregraphical representation shows the totalestimated downtime costs perof 24various hoursassets. forThis eachvisual assethighlights youwhich assessed.assets are more costly when disrupted, emphasizing the financial risks associated with certain business functions.

3. Total Downtime Cost of Assets

• This ismetric focuses on the total financial cost caused by downtime across all assets, showing the overall impact incurredon whenthe a system, service, or process experiences unplanned downtime.organization.

4. Total Impact on Goodwill, Compliance & Safety

• This issection measures the combinedbroader effecteffects of variousdowntime factorsor disruptions, specifically the impact on anthe organization’company’s goodwill,reputation regulatory(goodwill), compliance,compliance with regulations, and safety practices.standards.

5. Breakdown of Direct Costs of Downtime per 24 hours

• ThisThe isbreakdown aincludes detailedspecific analysisareas affected by downtime, such as loss of therevenue, specificloss of productivity, and increased operating costs. incurredThese duringfactors unplannedgive downtime.insight into where financial losses are most likely to occur.

6. Breakdown Score of Impact on Goodwill, Compliance & Safety

• This issection provides more detailed insights into how disruptions affect various business areas like customers, internal staff, and business partners, providing a detailedmedium-level analysisimpact ofscore thefor specificmost effects on an organization’s goodwill, regulatory compliance, and safety practices.areas.

7. Breakdown of Additional Criticality Factors

• This ispart anevaluates additionalhow criticalitydisruptions factorsaffect onother organization’scritical aspects like compliance and health or safety riskrisks, with some areas marked as having medium impact, while others like health and safety show no impact.

8. Total Assets

• These are theThe total assets thatbeing youassessed havefor addedrisk inare yourlisted Businesshere, Impactproviding Analysisan regardlessoverview of theirall status.the business functions under analysis.

To navigate to the Impact Analysis sub-module, click the left-side panel where Risk Management is located, then hover over Business Impact Analysis. Risk Management (Domain) → Business Impact Analysis (Module) → Impact Analysis (Sub-module).

Impact Analysis

Figure 3. Impact Analysis

Figure 3.1 Impact Analysis - Add Asset

Scoring Criteria

Figure 4. Scoring Criteria