A business continuity plan (BCP) describes how the organization keeps critical business processes going during and after a disruption, whether that is a fire, a pandemic, a supplier failure or a cyberattack. A disaster recovery plan (DRP) is the IT part of that effort: how systems, data, networks and infrastructure are restored. Both depend on the business impact analysis (BIA), which sets priorities and recovery objectives, and on senior management support, because continuity costs money and requires decisions only management can make.
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