The preparation of the business continuity plan (CFP) often poses challenges for organizations. Even though much of the required information is already available, it is often unclear what content is mandatory and what structure the CFP needs.

In the run-up to business continuity planning, organizations deal with the identification of critical business processes. Process maps and information on the organizational structure are usually already available. Most organizations have also already documented the dependency of the processes on certain applications or systems of the company, as well as the responsibilities, contacts and alarm chains.
If you take a look at a CFP (e.g., the BSI templates), you will quickly see that the existing information largely corresponds ...