7 BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY
In this chapter, we will briefly examine the concepts of business continuity (BC), which looks at the business as a whole, and disaster recovery (DR), which looks at just the IT infrastructure and which usually forms a component part of an organisation’s business continuity programme.
Although business continuity covers a much broader area than just cyber security, it is important to understand the underlying principles since it is a means of preparing for possible cyber security incidents. Likewise, disaster recovery is not all about cyber security but can play a major part in recovering from cyber security incidents.
Both business continuity and disaster recovery have a proactive and a reactive ...
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