CISSP Training Kit

Chapter summary

• Human safety is the primary objective in the DRP and BCP. The rapid and smooth return to a normal state of operations is the secondary objective of the DRP and BCP.

• The BCP is the overarching collection of long-term plans designed to avoid disasters, mitigate the impact of unavoidable disasters, quickly and smoothly return the enterprise to a state of normal operations after a disaster, and assess and manage risk continuously. The IT-centric DRP, a subset of the overarching BCP, is the collection of short-term plans designed to recover the critical business processes within their MTD to keep the enterprise operational. The DRP and BCP planning process must be driven by senior management, formalized within the policy documents, and ...