Business continuity plan (BCP)

The business continuity plan (BCP) sets out and defines the measures to be taken to preserve and continue a company’s activities in the face of potential threats. It demonstrates that the company’s operations can be maintained in the event of an incident.

Published on January 17, 20252 min read

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Key takeaways

The BCP defines the measures that keep the company’s operations running in the event of an incident.
It identifies risks: natural disasters, cyberattacks, fraud, etc.
It assesses, protects, verifies and is reviewed regularly.
The chosen BCP may require adjustments to the DRP.

Identifying risks

To do this, the BCP must determine and highlight all the risks likely to affect the company’s activities. Risks may include natural disasters, cyberattacks or fraud.

The measures set out in the plan

Once the risks have been identified, the plan:

Once risks have been identified, the BCP…

Assess the impact of risks on operations

Apply appropriate protections

Verify that the measures work

Review the process to keep it up to date

assesses the extent to which the risks will affect operations;
applies appropriate protection solutions and processes to reduce the risks;
defines verification procedures to ensure that these measures work;
reviews the process to ensure it is up to date.

This is done in several stages. This methodical work is essential, but very often long and tedious.

We support you

We support you in defining and implementing your BCP. We bring our technical perspective and feasibility indicators, and set out the essential prerequisites for developing a robust, workable BCP.

Note: sometimes the chosen BCP requires adjustments to the DRP. We can support you on both the theoretical and the technical side (for more information, see our page Disaster recovery plan – DRP).

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