Security+ Training Guide

Business Continuity

Understand the basic security implications of business continuity.

Whereas disaster recovery seeks to fix systems, utilities, facilities, and business functions in the short-term, business continuity plans extend the idea of the DRP to cover an undetermined amount of time. A common approach to developing a business continuity plan is to return to the DRP and ask, “What if we were offline for a year instead of a week or two?”

Each of the main areas of the DRP should be revisited and reevaluated for long-term issues and problems, and a time frame should be set for the transition from disaster recovery to business continuity. Even though the plans are similar, a separate business continuity statement or plan should be created ...