A comprehensive plan should cover the following areas:
- Personnel Information, including contact information, safety, and ability to resume work
- Systems - Orderly shutdown of equipment, resumption of mission-critical processing, and location of backups
- Processes - Documentation of critical business processes and process requirements
- Communications - Protection of networks, telecommunications, and data services along with alternatives
- Vital Records (Data and Paper) - Preservation of information security, and rapid restoration documentation
- Facilities - Safeguarding of facilities, and rapid re-entry or relocation
- Vital materials - May include spare parts
2005 - Federal Transit Administration