Disaster recovery plan and the business continuity plan

In contrast to risk management, the development of the disaster recovery plan and the business continuity plan is driven primarily by critical business functions rather than by the financial value of specific information assets.

The disaster recovery plan

The disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a subset of the overarching business continuity plan. The DRP is a reactive short-term plan and describes the immediate, specific, and sequential actions to be taken after a disaster event to recover the most critical business functions that keep the enterprise solvent, functional, ongoing, alive. The DR process is usually information technology–centric, with the objectives to recover the facility, the information ...

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