A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) refers to maintaining or renewing business functioning in the event of a significant disruption, whether caused by a fire, flood or destructive cyberattack, for the purpose of ensuring the continuity of the information that is critical to the organization.

This program is an outline of procedures for preventing damage, maintaining productivity, and recovery, in the event of a disaster. It comes to protect critical servers and applications, human resources, business partners, or, in other words, anything that your organization sees as important.

Disaster recovery in contrast to business continuity

Many people think that a DR (disaster recovery) plan and a business continuity plan are the same, but they are in fact two different plans. The Disaster Recovery Plan focuses on restoring IT infrastructure after a crisis, and constitutes just one part of the business continuity plan, that focuses on the continuity of the entire organization.

When creating such a plan, it is important to take into consideration the possible threats such as: natural disasters (e.g., flooding), human error (any disaster caused by human negligence), service failures (e.g., power outage), intentional sabotage (e.g., data leakage), and cyberattacks (any attack on the company’s assets).

Updating and maintaining the business continuity plan

Once you have built an important business continuity plan, it’s important that you inspect it regularly, Some organizations check the business continuity plan between two and four times a year, in order to know if it will actually fulfill its goal, or if perhaps  improvements are needed.

Sinopia enables organizations to establish a business continuity plan tailored to its needs, with an emphasis on the area of business and budgetary considerations, which are reflected in weighing the importance of the business implementation against the risk. That is, the ability to recover from the loss of information within a certain period of time, as defined by the customer, according to risk management.

This capability has been proven in many organizations, which achieve the objective of continuity and  stability of information  in critical matters, in accordance with the risk management principles set by the organization, without exceeding its ongoing budget or entering into non-implementable expenses.