According to people in this career, the main tasks are...
| Task | Importance |
|---|---|
| Develop emergency management plans for recovery decision making and communications, continuity of critical departmental processes, or temporary shut-down of non-critical departments to ensure continuity of operation and governance. | 95% |
| Develop disaster recovery plans for physical locations with critical assets, such as data centers. | 95% |
| Test documented disaster recovery strategies and plans. | 94% |
| Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements. | 89% |
| Write reports to summarize testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations. | 88% |
| Review existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans. | 87% |
| Create scenarios to reestablish operations from various types of business disruptions. | 87% |
| Establish, maintain, or test call trees to ensure appropriate communication during disaster. | 87% |
| Conduct or oversee contingency plan integration and operation. | 85% |
| Identify opportunities for strategic improvement or mitigation of business interruption and other risks caused by business, regulatory, or industry-specific change initiatives. | 81% |
| Interpret government regulations and applicable codes to ensure compliance. | 77% |
| Create or administer training and awareness presentations or materials. | 77% |
| Prepare reports summarizing operational results, financial performance, or accomplishments of specified objectives, goals, or plans. | 75% |
| Attend professional meetings, read literature, and participate in training or other educational offerings to keep abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity. | 74% |
| Recommend or implement methods to monitor, evaluate, or enable resolution of safety, operations, or compliance interruptions. | 74% |
| Create business continuity and disaster recovery budgets. | 73% |
| Maintain and update organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints. | 71% |
| Identify individual or transaction targets to direct intelligence collection. | 71% |
| Design or implement products and services to mitigate risk or facilitate use of technology-based tools and methods. | 70% |
| Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure. | 66% |
| Conduct or oversee collection of corporate intelligence to avoid fraud, financial crime, cyber attack, terrorism, and infrastructure failure. | 65% |
