2.5 Compare and contrast aspects of business continuity

Disaster recovery planning and procedures enable an organization to maintain or recover its mission-critical processes in spite of events that threaten its infrastructure. Maintaining business continuity means maintaining the organization’s networking and IT infrastructure so that mission-critical functions continue to operate. This must be done in spite of reduced resources and damaged equipment. As long as business operations aren’t stopped, business continuity is used to sustain the organization. If business operations are stopped, disaster recovery takes over.

Business impact analysis

Business impact analysis is the process of performing risk assessment on business tasks and processes ...

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