Business Continuity Plan

Checklist
Testing a Business Continuity Plan (Plan) confirms whether the Plan is
actionable and appropriate. It also ensures staff are trained in their
responsibilities and understand what will happen in a disruptive event.

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Business Continuity Plan
Checklist
Check box
TEST CHECKLIST YES NO
Do the Plan strategies address ‘All Hazards’ in a business
disruption?
Strategy 1. No access to facilities
2. No access to ICT
3. Reduced access to people
Are actions required that were missing in the Plan?
Are hard and electronic copies of the Plan stored in
Plan and prepare Business Continuity Kits at appropriate, easily accessible
and secure locations?
Are Kit contents complete, up-to-date and adequate?
Are activities and priorities clearly understood?
Are the actions the best responses?
Continuity Do actions identify who does what, when and where?
response actions Do ‘manual work arounds’ have a logical flow?
(To activate critical
business activities) Are actions practical? Are they sufficient?
Were actions successfully completed?
Do actions identify who does what, when and where?
Recovery
response actions Do ‘back to business as usual’ actions have logical flow?
(To resume business Are recovery actions practical? Are they sufficient?
as usual)
Were actions successfully completed?
Interdependencies Have all interdependencies been adequately addressed?
Are all staff and key departmental or regional contacts
included?
Are all contact details complete, current and accurate?
Does the Plan address contacting staff to notify them
whether they need to come to work or report to an
Communication alternate location?
Does the Plan identify key messages and communication
channels to each of the stakeholders in the event of ICT
systems being unavailable?
Does the Plan identify essential suppliers or customer
contact details?

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Business Continuity Plan
Checklist

Check box
TEST CHECKLIST YES NO
Does the Plan anticipate all the resources required to
support Plan activation?
Resource Is it clear who the Plan Coordinator should contact
requirements regarding required continuity resources?
(People, facilities, ICT,
vital records) Are all vital records, data or resources required to
implement continuity arrangements current, correct and
included in the Kits?
Are related plans helpful and easily available?
Related plans
Are all the required related plans identified?
Testing and Does the event log list all critical incidents or revisions
activation register that have occurred during the life of the Plan?
Test outcomes YES NO
Was the test suitable and appropriate?
Did participants understand the Plan?
Did the Plan capture all roles to support activation?
Are roles and responsibilities appropriate and current?
Have backups been identified for all roles and responsibilities?
Are delegations of tasks appropriate?
Are any revisions or additions to the Plan required?
Has responsibility for these actions been assigned?
Has an appropriate timeframe been designated to complete the actions?
Has a report on the test been completed?
Has the test report been emailed to the Business Continuity Management
Working Group?
Has the Plan been updated with the results of the testing?
Has the date and the type of test been entered into the Plan’s Event Log?
Has the revised Plan been approved by the Plan Owner?

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Business Continuity Plan
Checklist
Check box
TEST CHECKLIST YES NO
Function System

System Checklist Clearing CTS, BOT Gateway, SPPS

SWIFT KENNEX, TT_TISS Capturing

Treasury Ops Quantum, KPRINTER

Treasury Front Roiters, Quantum

Finance 1. Sage Evolution(Pastel)-

Fexed Assets
2.File Zila Client-Payment
processing and uploading
3.EMP Link-
https://213.131.67.206/action
/login
4.Igor-
https://10.116.64.2:4443/igor
/orion?config=boatz
5.K-printer-
http://172.16.10.130/kprinter
/login.aspx
6.Reports tool-
http://10.116.71.59/reports/p
ublic/login
6.Jira-https://jira.emp-
group.com/login.jsp
1.File Zila Client-Payment
processing and uploading
2. IGOR
1.Umoja portal
2. Mpesa portal
3. Selcom portal
4. SMR tool
5.Reports tool-
http://10.116.71.59/reports/p
ublic/login
Ebanking 1.M-PESA WEB

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 2.AIRTEL MONEY WEB
3.EZY PESA WEB
4.HALO PESA WEB
5.WUPOS
6.AGENTPORTAL
7.TRACKPAYMENT
8.AGENTWORKS.MONEYGRA
M
9.BUSINESPORTAL
10.VOYAGER
11.SELCOM BRIDGE
12.B-MOBILE.Selcom portal
12.EMP
13.JIRA .for visa issues
14.Selcom portal.for checking
transaction.sema nimesahau
jina lake vizuri.
15.Monedia. For tracking ATM
Cards
Payment IGOR

Credit Admin CQ

Legal Documentation CQ, Doc Management System,

HR HRM

Credit Analyst CQ & CRB

Trade Finance KPRINTER, KSCAN, TT

capturing
IT EMP_FTP,EMP_JIRA,
EMP_LIVE,MONEDIA,BWEB
administarator, BWEB client,B-
Mobile portal, UMOJA portal,
OTRS, Mantis,
GLPI,MIS_Dashboard

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