ABSTRACT
This chapter explores business continuity management and continues with dependency modelling. Business continuity management planning is a formal process that incorporates a number of frameworks and involves staff throughout the organization. Interdependency relationships are unique to the particular organization, and only by coming to terms with the actual relationships in that organization can anything really valuable be done to understand, manage and reduce risks. Dependency Modeling was developed to capture these interdependencies in a highly visual model so that the consequence of failures could be uncovered in the safe, virtual environment of the computer. The risk model, of course, would be different for each organization looking to deal with Asymmetric Warfare or Obstructive Marketing threats. Acknowledging that a cyber attack can be launched from anywhere in the world, at any time and through various routes, an organization must be robust enough to withstand such an attack and it is essential that risk mitigation is placed within a security management framework.
