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Business continuity planning can be the item that determines life or death of a company. Today, approximately 65% of companies could not stay in business if they had to be closed for a week or longer. It's estimated that less than 5% of companies are truly prepared to endure and survive a disaster. These numbers have been improving since 9/11/2001, which caused many corporations take business continuity and disaster recovery more seriously.

Disaster recovery focuses on how to survive a disaster and what to do right after a disaster. These plans are usually technology-oriented and focus on getting the network and systems up and running as quickly as possible. Business continuity deals with keeping a company and business after a disaster has been experienced and takes a lot more into account than just technology. More and more companies are developing business continuity into their environment because of the raised awareness of tragic possibilities, but also because of new regulatory requirements that infer executive management obligations for fiscal responsibility.

The following are a few of the topics that are covered in this domain:

• Business continuity and disaster recovery planning: Management leadership, goals and requirements, business impact analysis, team building and implementation.
• Backup alternatives: Hardware and software approaches, collocation, electronic vaulting, offsite facilities requirements and types. Recovery and testing: Strategies for executing recovery, carrying out drills and types of plan testing.
• Emergency response: Preserving assets and life, reducing fraud, theft and vandalism.