The goal of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is to determine which of the following?

The primary goal of a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is to identify and quantify the impact of a disruption on an organization's critical business functions over time. This process is fundamental to business continuity planning. By analyzing these impacts, the organization can identify which functions are most critical, establish priorities for their restoration, and determine the Maximum Tolerable Downtime (MTD) for each function. The MTD is the longest period a function can be inoperable before the organization incurs unacceptable losses. These outputs—resource priorities and MTD—are the essential drivers for developing recovery strategies and the overall business continuity plan.

1. NIST Special Publication 800-34 Rev. 1

Contingency Planning Guide for Federal Information Systems. Section 3.2

"Business Impact Analysis

" states

"The BIA purpose is to correlate specific system components with the critical services that they provide

and based on that information

to characterize the consequences of a disruption to the system components... Key BIA activities in this step include determining mission/business processes and recovery criticality... [and] identifying resource requirements... [and] recovery priorities for system resources." (Page 15).

2. (ISC)² CISSP Official Study Guide

9th Edition. Chapter 4

"Business Continuity Planning

" under the section "Performing the Business Impact Analysis

" explains that the BIA process is used to "identify the resources that are critical to an organization's ongoing viability and the threats that may impact those resources... It also assesses the priorities that should be assigned to the recovery of the various business processes." It further defines MTD as a key output of this analysis. (Page 148).

3. FIPS PUB 199

Standards for Security Categorization of Federal Information and Information Systems. This standard

which is foundational to the BIA process described in NIST 800-34

requires organizations to assess the impact of loss of confidentiality

integrity

and availability. The BIA extends this by quantifying the impact over time to establish recovery priorities. (Section: "Impact Levels

" Page 3).