<p>The purpose of this business continuity plan is to build a practiced plan for Al Baraka Bank in the event of mass service breakdown caused by factors beyond human control (e.g., natural disasters, man-made events, war).</p>
<p>Business Continuity Plan helps in recovering and restoring critical functions within a limited time after a disaster/crisis takes place. It is a solution to let the bank stay in business in the event of disaster. This plan covers all Al Baraka Bank system sites, operations facilities, and departments. All Al Baraka Bank sites are expected to perform safety measures to control and limit failure and to recover as much as possible all the lost data in a short period of time.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Scope:</strong></span></p>
<p>- Nuclear and mass destruction wars are beyond the scope of this plan</p>
<p>-The plan does not focus on each possible disruption. It rather looks for common elements in any disaster such as loss of information, loss of personnel, loss of equipments and loss of access to information facilities.</p>
<p>- This plan includes procedures, solutions, and set of scenarios that might be possible and potential crisis examples.</p>
<p>- It is not meant to be a day to day solution. It is a contingency program for critical and essential activities.</p>
<p>- The teams it encompasses are depicted from all departmants of the bank. They will be ready, trained, and prepared for any crisis.</p>
<p>- The DR site is equipped with essential office utilities, IT infrastructure, communication facilities and equipment.</p>
<p>- The DR site is ready to host representatives of the departments who will assume the critical and essential functions. Disaster Definition: A disaster is identified by any loss of process, system, information, communication, physical safeguards or catastrophic event (natural disasters) that causes interruption of service provided by Al Baraka Bank operations. The plan identifies exposure of the occurrence of the above mentioned events by which it offers recommended measures to avoid extended service outages.</p>