Knowra Business continuity planning Business continuity planning Business continuity planning prepares an organization to maintain or restore essential functions during disruptions. It identifies critical activities, dependencies, recovery strategies, and responsibilities.
Business impact analysis : A process that identifies critical activities and assesses how disruption affects an organization over time. It establishes which functions continuity plans must protect and how quickly they need recovery.
Critical business function : An organizational activity whose prolonged interruption would seriously impair operations or obligations. These are the activities continuity planning prioritizes for protection and recovery.
Disaster recovery : The restoration of technology systems, data, and infrastructure after disruptive events. It supplies technical recovery capabilities that many business continuity plans depend on.
Business continuity management : An ongoing management system for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and improving organizational continuity capability. Planning is one activity within this broader, continuing management discipline.
Recovery time objective : The target duration within which a disrupted activity or system must be restored. It converts continuity priorities into deadlines for resuming essential operations.
Business process : A connected set of activities that produces an outcome for customers or an organization. Continuity plans preserve processes by identifying their essential steps and resources.
Crisis management : The coordination of decisions and communications during a serious threat or disruptive event. It handles leadership and response decisions while continuity teams sustain essential work.
Information technology service continuity management : The IT service management discipline for ensuring technology services can recover after disruption. Its scope centers on IT services, while business continuity planning spans organizational functions.
Recovery point objective : The maximum acceptable age of data that may be lost after a disruption. It sets how much data loss continuity arrangements can tolerate.
Business dependency : A resource, service, process, or relationship required for an activity to operate. Mapping dependencies exposes the people, technology, facilities, and suppliers a plan must address.
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