A regional business is expecting a severe winter storm next week. The IT staff has been reviewing corporate policies on how to handle various situations and found some are missing or incomplete. After reporting this gap in documentation to the information security manager, a document is immediately drafted to move various personnel to other locations to avoid downtime in operations. This is an example of:

A business continuity plan.

Explanation:

Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a process whereby businesses ensure the recovery of criticalbusiness operations, including services to customers whenconfronted with adverse events such as natural disasters, technological failures, human error, or other unplanned incidents. Is the creation and validation of a practical logistical plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely within a predetermined time after a disaster has occurred.

Objectives:

- Minimize loss by minimizing the cost associated with disruptions.

- Enable the Organization to survive a disaster.

Goals:

- Identify weaknesses.

- Minimize the duration of a serious disruption to b/s operations.

- Facilitate effective co-ordination of recovery tasks.

- Reduce the complexity of the recovery effort.

Areas:

- Business Resumption Planning.

- Disaster Recovery Planning.

- Crisis Management.