Analysis of Unexpected Recovery Factors and Their Impact on IT Business Continuity Timeframes

The current paper focuses on the analysis of multiple unforeseen factors that should be taken into consideration during the formulation of the IT Business Continuity testing policy in an enterprise. The prerequisite for a successful strategy towards the avoidance of the unexpected interruption of either one or multiple computer based business functions, is the often execution of recovery exercises. During testing, however, the more emphasis is given to probable Unexpected Recovery Factors that can delay the recovery time effort of a given business function, the more organized and prepared the personnel will be in order to react immediately and recover on time all the critical business functions whose interruption may negatively influence the organization in a real emergency event.