Protection of critical targets

Recognising critical processes and knowing their content and the way they work is vital for the success of continuity planning.

An organisation must identify the enabling factors of its operation:

• the data it processes
• human resources
• roles
• devices
• information systems and
• facilities.

Once these critical targets have been identified, it is possible to correctly target these digital security measures.

The planning aims to safeguard the operation of the organisation’s critical processes in various disruptions. Without knowledge of critical processes the focus may be on safeguarding the wrong things, or the right things in the wrong way.