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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

For business continuity newcomers, few topics are as confusing as the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery. They soon find the field contains an abundance of specialist terms such as inherent risk , mitigation controls , and recovery time objective. Let’s go over them.

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Understanding Recovery Time Objectives: A Key Component in Business Continuity

Erwood Group

Executives will find this information valuable for enhancing their company’s disaster recovery plans and ensuring sustained operational effectiveness today and into the future. What is a Recovery Time Objective (RTO)? The Key Elements of RTO: Time Frame: The specific duration within which recovery must be completed.

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Disaster Recovery Plan vs. Business Continuity Plan: Is There a Difference?

Diligent

Disaster recovery and business continuity are two terms often used interchangeably – but doing so risks missing some of the key differences between the two strategies. To debunk the disaster recovery plan vs. business continuity plan debate, we look at: What each means. What is Disaster Recovery?

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Risk Assessment, BIA, SLAs, RTOs, and RPOs: What’s the Link? MTD and MTDL

Zerto

Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. Differentiating Between Risk Assessment (RA) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA). What Is Risk Assessment?

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. What Is A Disaster Recovery Plan? Learn More About what is Disaster Recovery Plan.

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7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy 

MHA Consulting

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. Step 5: Perform a BIA The business impact analysis tells you which of your business processes are most critically time sensitive. BC strategy development is not a “one and done” activity.

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How a Risk Maturity Model Can Increase Your Company’s Resilience

MHA Consulting

In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall. Common ones include BIAs, recovery exercises, and recovery plans.)