6.2. Understanding Business Continuity Planning

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is the process of implementing policies, controls, and procedures to counteract the effects of losses, outages, or failures of critical business processes. BCP is primarily a management tool that ensures that critical business functions (CBF) can be performed when normal business operations are disrupted.

Critical business functions refer to those processes or systems that must be made operational immediately when an outage occurs. The business can't function without them, and many are information intensive and require access to both technology and data.

Two of the key components of BCP are Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and risk assessment. BIA is concerned with ...

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