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Business Continuity
Planning
Eugene Tucker, CPP, CFE, CBCP
Contributing author
‘‘A plan is nothing, planning is everything.’’
—Dwight Eisenhower
Business continuity planning is defined in many different ways, each reflecting its author’s
particular slant on contingency planning. Many of these definitions attempt to combine
the defini tions of continuity planning and of a continuity plan. There is an important
distinction between the two.
Business continuity planning is a process that identifies the critical functions of an
organization and that develops strategies to minimize the effects of an outage or loss
of service provided by these functions. The ...