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What is Business continuity plan?

In short

A business continuity plan sets out how an organization will keep its critical operations running during and after a disruption, covering people, facilities, suppliers, communications and technology.

Key takeaways

  • The disaster recovery plan is the information technology part of it.
  • Priorities and recovery objectives come from a business impact analysis.
  • Plans must be tested, for example with tabletop exercises, and kept up to date.

Where it's tested

ISC: Incident Response & Monitoring — study notes, a five-minute revision sheet and practice questions.

Practise: 3 questions

Question 1 of 3 · 0 answered

Recovery point objective (RPO) specifies:

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