A threat less: Time to update the plans

We are used to enlarge the business continuity plans with new threats and risks, based on what's happening. It is normal to update plans with threats and scenarios not covered initially. But this time is just the opposite: updating business continuity plans eliminating a threat, or at least reduce the risk of a threat materializing. I'm talking about the announcement of the final of violence by ETA.

If we analyze the main causes of activation of business continuity plans (no IT), we can say there are three main causes of activation:

• Large snowfall, causing employees can not reach their workplaces.
• Lack of delivery by suppliers, for example, power outages and fires in electrical substations that affected the Retiro area in 2008.
• Consequences of terrorist attacks, dropping bombs as the one in the Bull building in Campo de las naciones in 2005, prompting the evacuation of nearby buildings (Correos, Endesa, Cepsa, etc) or the 2009, which we recall here video.

 

 

From now on, we can begin to evaluate this third threat as a minor probability threat, although unfortunately there will always be groups willing to spread terror on this way. Certainly ETA in Spain was the most important terrorist attack threat.

 

The announcement is very good news we all expected and we want to be able to become final and remove this threat from our business continuity plans. Hopefully not the last threat that we discard.