Business Continuity Plan(BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plan(DRP)

A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) typically deals with the management process to ensure the continuity of businesses. It includes planning and implementing the activities of prevention and protection of all of the risks anticipated before an event occurs. It also deals with the planning for the activities to be implemented or executed during an emergency event. Some of these encompass emergency response plan, crisis management, and communications plan, work-around or contingency plan. Finally, it should cover the planning of resources for activities for resumption, recovery, and restoration of businesses, exercises/update and plan management.

The other type of plan that often associated with business continuity planning is the disaster recovery plan. The Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) is the plan to recover data, technology and tools that support applications and data and infrastructure including the network, hardware and operating systems. The disaster recovery plan is usually integrated into the business continuity plan.

At i-Magination, we provide consultancy services to conduct BCP and DRP for our customers. Afterwhich, for some of our customers, we also provide the actual implementation of DRP to support their mission critical business in the event of the unexpected disaster or emergency.