
The collection of resources and tasks to restore IT services (including components such as infrastructure, telecommunications, systems, applications and data) at an alternate site following a disruption of IT services.

DRI International (Disaster recovery, not disaster recovery plan): The technical aspect of business continuity.

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Therefore, you must understand your business drivers if you want to make an effective plan. Small aside, the difference between a business continuity plan and a continuity of operations plan is that the latter focuses on restoring essential functions in the short term (think 30 days or less).īefore we jump in, think about it like this: if BC is about backup strategies for people, DR is about backup strategies for all the stuff people rely on.

If you recall from the previous piece, NIST SP 800-34 calls out a separate disaster recovery plan, as it supports business continuity and continuity of operation plans. Moving along our organizational resilience journey, we focus on disaster recovery (DR), the perfect follow-up to business continuity (BC) The two go hand-in-hand, often referenced as BCDR, and both are key to your cyber resilience planning.
