Incident Response & Operations
Business Continuity Plan
A plan to keep essential business functions running through and after a disruption.
A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a broad plan for keeping an organization's essential functions operating during and after a disruptive event, covering people, facilities, communications, and technology.
It is wider in scope than a disaster recovery plan (which focuses on IT systems) and overlaps with HIPAA's contingency plan requirements. For organizations handling ePHI, a BCP helps ensure that both operations and data protection survive an emergency.