Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Resilient organizations have plans and procedures in place to help mitigate the effects a disaster has on their continuing operations and to speed the return to normal operations. Business continuity planning (BCP) helps cybersecurity professional's organization assess priorities and design resilient processes that will allow continued operations in the event of a disaster. Disaster recovery planning is the technical complement to the business‐focused BCP exercise. BCP is used to maintain the continuous operation of a business in the event of an emergency. One of the first tasks of the team responsible for BCP is to perform an analysis of the business organization to identify all departments and individuals who have a stake in the BCP process. The business impact analysis identifies the business processes and tasks that are critical to an organization's ongoing viability and the threats posed to those resources.