Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery
Control A.14 of the ISO/IEC 27001 Standard deals with business continuity, ensuring that the organization is able to:
- survive a major disaster,
- can counteract major disruptions to its activities
- and can protect critical business processes from the effects of major failures or disasters and ensure their timely resumption.
Many businesses fail because they didn’t have in place properly thought-through and adequately tested disaster recovery procedures. Roughly 80% of organizations that suffer a disaster simply don’t recover from it, but rather struggle through and then go out of business within a year or two.
Business Continuity Management involves managing the recovery or continuation of business activities in the event of a business disruption, and management of the overall programme through training, exercises and reviews, to ensure the business continuity plan(s) stays current and up to date.
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