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title: Defining Service Continuity Project
slug: en/defining-service-continuity-project
description: Learn about the different phases of Continuity Registration, starting with Initiation. Discover the prerequisites required to begin the process, including defining services in the Portfolio and Catalog Management process. Register threat and risk categori
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createdAt: 2021-10-27T20:12:22.000Z
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**Continuity Registration** is a process that passes through several phases. The first phase of this process, called Initiation, is where it is set the policy, scope, and IT service continuity project.
This functionality allows **setting the policy**.
## Before getting started
- [x] It assumes the existence of a defined service in a Portfolio and Catalog
Management process;
- [x] It is necessary to first have registered the Continuity Registration;
- [x] It is necessary to have registered the threat and threat categories, both linked to
each other;
- [x] It is also necessary to register the risk and risk category;
- [x] It is equally essential to have registered the automatic actions of the incident,
request and procedure 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 project and click on "**Advance**";
3. In "**Initiation**", click on "**Project**"*;*
4. Click on "**Link Project**" to relate a project already existed in the
continuity;
5. To register a project from this screen, click on "**Create New Project**" and
complete the fields necessary;
6. Click on "**Save**".
## What to do next
After setting the service continuity project, it is necessary to execute the
following action: register the service continuity vital functions, being this
action, part of the second phase of the complete registration of the continuity,
called Requirements and Strategy.