Understanding Differences Between Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) | Continuity Insights
Disaster Recovery (DR) lends itself to Technology. Think of it as a subset of Business Continuity with the focus on Digital Data. It may be better to refer to it as IT Disaster Recovery (IT DR) to emphasize the point.
Business Continuity (BC) lends itself to overall process to maintain business operations and life safety. Business Continuity is focused on Business Operations. It is the apex entity, at the very top, entailing subsets such as Disaster Recovery, Crisis Communications, Pandemic Planning, Business Continuity Planning, Emergency Response, etc.
