ABSTRACT
The initial version of this chapter was written for the 1999 edition of the Information Security
Management Handbook. Since then, E-commerce has seized the spotlight and Web-based technologies
are the emerging solution for almost everything. The constant throughout these occurrences is that no
matter what the climate, fundamental business processes have changed little. And, as always, the focus of
any business impact assessment is to assess the time-critical priority of these business processes. With
these more recent realities in mind, this chapter has been updated and is now offered for the
reader’s consideration.
