Business continuity management is the development, monitoring, and updating of the process by which organizations plan for continuity of their business in the event of loss or disaster through theft, virus/malware infestation, weather damage, accidents, or other malicious destruction. Disaster recovery includes business continuation, contingency planning, and disk recovery technologies and processes.
| Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Continuity Management Content Suite |
The 2008 Top Technology Initiatives Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) content suite has been assembled to help members achieve a better understanding of the technologies and issues related to BCM and DRP. It is intended to provide IT decision-makers in both Public Practice and Business & Industry with practical guidance as to how they can leverage resources that can include people, technology, data, facilities, customers and suppliers and mitigate threats to these resources that may include theft, virus infestation, weather damage, accidents or other malicious destruction.