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Business Continuity Management FAQS
Find answers to common Business Continuity Management questions about maintaining operations during disruptions.
Ensuring Business Continuity During Disruptions
Explore common questions about Business Continuity Management, including how to develop, implement, and maintain plans that keep your organization running during unexpected disruptions.
Business Continuity FAQs
Business continuity is the advance planning and preparation undertaken to ensure that an organization will have the capability to operate its critical business functions during disruptive events.
Business continuity management (BCM) is a process that helps organizations prepare for and respond to disruptions.
A business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that outlines how a business will continue operating during an unplanned disruption in service.
The benefit of having a business continuity plan (BCP) is that it ensures that your business can continue to serve its customers, meet its obligations, and recover quickly, no matter what disruptions it faces.
Business continuity management (BCM) and business continuity planning (BCP) are closely related concepts, but they differ in scope and focus:
- BCM is the comprehensive, ongoing management framework for ensuring that business operations remain resilient and can recover from disruptions; it is strategic and broad, covering all aspects of an organization’s continuity needs.
- BCP is the creation and documentation of specific action plans designed to ensure the continuation of critical business functions during and after a disruption; it is a tactical part of BCM, focused on the “how” of recovery.
A business impact analysis (BIA) is the process of determining the criticality of business activities and associated resource requirements to ensure operational resilience and continuity of operations during and after a business disruption.
A recovery time objective (RTO) is the duration of time and a service level within which a business process, application, and/or vendor service must be available after a disaster in order to avoid unacceptable consequences associated with a break in continuity.