Chapter 1

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Overview

Abstract

Business continuity and disaster recovery planning has become increasingly important to businesses of all sizes. With increased reliance on information systems and electronic data, virtually all businesses need to develop a well-crafted business continuity and disaster recovery plan. The plan has discrete steps and can be managed as any other IT project, but it does require leveraging the subject matter experts from across the organization in order to develop a responsible and workable BC/DR plan.

Keywords

Business continuity planning; Disaster recovery planning; BC/DR overview; Business continuity definition; Disaster recovery definition; Cost of planning for disasters

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