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DISASTER: A sudden, unplanned event causing great damage or loss.

It results in an organization's inability to provide critical business functions for a period of time.
When a disaster occurs, company management decides to divert normal production responses and exercises its disaster recovery plan. This also coincides with a move from a primary to an alternate location.

BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING (BCP): Advance arrangements and procedures that enable an organization to respond to an event in such a manner that critical business functions continue within planned levels of interruption or essential change.

DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN: The document that defines the resources, actions, tasks and data required to manage the business recovery process in the event of a business interruption. The plan is designed to assist in restoring business processes within the stated disaster recovery goals.