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Business continuity plan

Business continuity plan

- In this lesson, we're going to talk about your business continuity plan, or BCP. Now, business continuity planning or the creation of your business continuity plan is going to ensure that the organization is able to recover from a disruptive event or a disaster. This is a specialized field within an organization, one which takes a lot of planning and forethought to keep the organization running smoothly during an event or incident. Now, there are two major terms associated with business continuity planning. The first is business continuity planning, or the business continuity plan itself. This refers to the plans and processes used for your response to a disruptive event. Now, the second is a disaster recovery plan or DRP. This refers specifically to plans and processes that are used during a disaster. Now, the disaster recovery plan usually is going to be considered a subset of a more complete business continuity plan. When you think about a BCP, this is a plan that's used for any…

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