Business Continuity Planning

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A Business Continuity Primer

In the previous chapter, business continuity (BC) is dened as the dis-

cipline of developing, deploying, and maintaining strategies and proce-

dures to ensure the continuance or recovery of critical business processes.

Business preparedness (BP) is a subset of BC, enabling an organization to

continue or recover services or products during and aer an event to sup-

port and service customers.

GOALS

To provide value to an organization, BC must achieve, at a minimum,

three goals to demonstrate value.

Improve the Odds of Survivability

Preparing in advance for a known event negatively impacting company

performance increa ...