The Disaster Recovery Plan - Part 1

Relationship to the Business Continuity Plan

The Business Continuity Plan may be written for a specific business process or may address all mission-critical business processes. The BCP is an umbrella plan whose major sub-components include the Disaster Recovery Plan.

Information systems are considered in the BCP only in terms of their support of those business processes. A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) consists of the following component plans:

· Business Resumption Plan

· Occupant Emergency Plan

· Incident Management Plan

· Continuity of Operations Plan

· Disaster Recovery Plan

The Business Resumption Plan, Occupant Emergency Plan, and Continuity of Operations Plan do not deal with the Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure. The Incident Management Plan (IMP), which does deal with the IT infrastructure, establishes structure and procedures to address cyber attacks against an organization’s IT systems and generally does not involve activation of the Disaster Recovery Plan.


source:// SANS Institute InfoSec Reading Room