Example Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans

A good business continuity or disaster recovery plan incorporates:

• activities to monitor current risks,
• actions to take prior to an incident to reduce its probability and impact,
• actions to take during an incident to continue operations with reduced staffing, and with constraints imposed by government regulation, and legitimate staff and supplier concerns,
• actions to take after an incident has subsided to begin to return to normal operations.

Note that although historically a disaster recovery plan (or DRP) referred to an IT-specific plan, and a business continuity plan (or BCP) referred to the organization's other activities, with the IT-centric nature of the most organization the distinction has ceased to be useful. In the example plans below we will often use the terms interchangeably.

The examples below were generated using PlanBuilder for Business Continuity, a software package that can be used to rapidly create and maintain your business continuity / disaster recovery plan.

Choose the plan which is the closest match to your organization or institution:

• Example Company Business Continuity Plan
• Example Bank Business Continuity Plan
• Example Credit Union Business Continuity Plan
• Example Data Center Business Continuity Plan (coming soon)
• Example Biotechnology Company Business Continuity Plan (coming soon)
• Example Hospital Business Continuity Plan (coming soon)