Risk Management - Process
Business Continuity Planning
(BCP)
A plan for keeping essential business activity running through serious disruption
What's it for?
Helps an organisation keep its most important work running during a serious disruption.
For example…
If the office is closed by a storm, the BCP says who can still approve urgent payments remotely, and how
When a cyberattack closes normal systems, the business continuity plan says which essential services continue manually and who communicates with customers
Think of it like…
Theatre understudy plan so the show still goes on when the lead is ill