An all encompassing, "umbrella" term covering both disaster recovery planning and business resumption planning. Also see disaster recovery planning and business resumption plannning.
Process of developing advance arrangements and procedures that enable an organization to respond to an event in such a manner that critical business functions continue with planned levels of interruption or essential change. SIMILAR TERMS: Contingency Planning, Disaster Recovery Planning, Business Continuity.
Broadly defined as a management process that seeks to identify potential threats and impacts to the organization and provide a strategic and operational framework for ensuring the organization is able to withstand any disruption, interruption or loss to normal business functions or operation.
The overall process of developing an approved set of arrangements and procedures to insure your business can respond to a disaster and resume its critical business functions within a required time frame objective. It is an ongoing process to plan, develop, and implement disaster recovery procedures to ensure the optimum availability of the critical business functions. The primary objective is to reduce the level of risk and cost to you and the impact on your staff, customers and suppliers.
Assessment of data disaster and the subsequent risk to business processes, and the creation of policies, plans, and procedures to minimize the impact of such risks.
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) refers to a program that provides for the continued availability of critical services and assets, and of other services and assets when warranted by a Threat and Risk Assessment (TRA).
Devising a plan that anticipates risk and guards against business disruption in case of unforeseen events.
Prepared (and tested) measures for protection of critical business operations from the effects of a loss, damage or other failure of operational facilities providing crucial functions (e.g. programs and data) to them, In terms of Information Security this comprises backups and archiving, stand-in hardware etc.
(BCP): A Planning process of developing procedures and protocols that enable an organization to respond to a disaster or failure in such a way so that mission critical business functions continue with planned levels of interruption or essential change.
An all encompassing, "umbrella" term covering both disaster recovery planning and business resumption planning. SEE ALSO Business Resumption Planning.
A methodology to deal with disasters, either preventing them, reducing their impact or preparing the organization in dealing with them.
(planification de la continuité opérationnelle) - an all-encompassing term which includes the development and timely execution of plans, measures, procedures and arrangements to ensure minimal or no interruption to the availability of critical services and assets.
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is an interdisciplinary peer mentoring methodology used to create and validate an exercised logistical plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time after a disaster or extended disruption.
