This plan ensures critical business functions continue during a disruption.
What is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP)?
DR primarily focuses on restoring these after an outage.
What are IT systems and data?
Collaboration between these two teams ensures resilience.
Who are Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery teams?
This type of test involves reviewing plans without execution.
What is a tabletop exercise?
This is the most critical asset for DR planning.
What is data?
The first step in creating a BCP is conducting this type of analysis.
What is a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?
This metric defines acceptable data loss in time.
What is Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?
This department often partners with BC/DR for compliance.
What is Risk Management?
A test where systems are restored from backups.
What is a recovery test?
Encrypting data ensures this key security principle.
What is confidentiality?
This term refers to the maximum tolerable downtime for a process.
What is Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?
This type of DR site is fully equipped and ready to use immediately.
What is a hot site?
Vendors providing critical services are called this.
What are third-party providers?
This type of test validates communication channels.
What is a notification test?
This type of backup captures only changes since the last backup.
What is an incremental backup?
The process of identifying essential personnel and resources for continuity.
What is resource prioritization?
The term for switching operations to a backup system during failure.
What is failover?
This agreement outlines roles during a disruption.
What is a Service Level Agreement (SLA)?
This term refers to testing under real-world conditions.
What is live simulation?
The term for storing data in multiple locations for redundancy.
What is replication?
The term for alternate work locations during a disruption.
What is a recovery site?
This exercise simulates a real disaster to test readiness.
What is a full-scale DR test?
This cross-functional group often leads crisis response.
What is the Incident Response Team?
The final step after any test is documenting these.
What are lessons learned?
The process of verifying data integrity after restoration.
What is data validation?