What is Business Continuity

Consists of the activities performed on a daily basis to ensure the business operates normally today, tomorrow, and beyond. Business continuity is sometimes confused with disaster recovery, but they are separate entities. Disaster recovery is a small subset of business continuity. The business continuity plan may be thought of as a methodology, or as an enterprise wide mentality of conducting day-to-day business.

The components of the business continuity plan and methodology are:

• Policies - those things that shall be done
• Guidelines - those things that should be done
• Standards - technical specifications derived from policies and guidelines
• Procedures - step-by-step instructions for implementation of standards
• Resource planning and deployment
• Organizational Structure
• Business Impact Analysis (BIA)
• Security Management
• Document Management
• Change Management
• Audit Management
• Service Level Agreements