17.8.34 Disaster recovery and Business continuity planning

Disaster recovery (DR) involves a set of policies, procedures, systems and organization to enable the recovery or continuation of vital technology infrastructure and systems following a natural or human-induced disaster.

Business continuity plan (BCP) is a plan to continue operations if a place of business is affected by different levels of disaster which can be localized short term disasters, to days long building wide problems, to a permanent loss of a building.