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Discover how to navigate through the second phase of the Continuity Registration process with this informative document. Dive into the Requirements and Strategy phase, where you'll 
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The Continuity Registration is a process that passes through several phases. The second phase of this process is the Requirements and Strategy, where it will be define the vital functions, business impact analysis, risks evaluation and continuity strategy. This functionality allows registering the IT service continuity strategy.

In this screen, a green stripe is presented, informing the percentage of functions contemplated to the executive summary, and a red stripe informing the percentage of the vital functions not contemplated to the objective.

## Before getting started

Make sure there is a defined service in a Portfolio and Catalog Management
 process;

First, register the Continuity Registration, the
 policy and continuity project already defined,
 the vital functions, business impact analysis and continuity risks evaluation.

Also, previously register the threat and the threat
 category, both linked to each other, as well as the risk and
 risk category.

It is equally necessary to have registered the automatic actions of Incident,
 Request, and Procedures about the Event Management.

## Procedure

1. Access the functionality through the main menu `Processes > Continuity
    Management > Continuity`;
2. Find the continuity you want to link the continuity strategy and click on  "**Advance**";
3. In **Requirements and Strategy**, click on "**Continuity Strategy**";
4. Complete the fields necessary;
5. Click on "**Select Vital Function**" to search and link the vital function you
    want;
6. Click on "**Services**" of the vital function to view the services linked to it;
7. Click on "**Scenarios**" to view the scenario linked to it. Then, click on the
    icon “**+**” of the scenario to view its information;
8. Still in the scenario screen, click on the tab "**Treatment Plans**" and then on "**Use recovery measure**" and/or "**Use as a response to risks**". After this, it will be added to the IT service continuity Strategy screen the response
    measure to define;
9. Click on "**Save**".

## What to do next

After registering the service continuity strategy, register the Continuity plan, part of the third
 phase of the complete registration of Continuity, called Implementation.