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Disaster Recovery Plans are about People, Too

Name: Disaster Recovery Plans are about People, Too
Uploaded: 2025-03-01T13:01:13+00:00
Duration: 42 s
Channel: Aaron Pritz
Description: In this segment, the speaker clarifies the functional split between Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP). DR is presented as the…

1 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker clarifies the functional split between Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Planning (BCP). DR is presented as the technical, tactical roadmap for rebuilding and restoring IT systems after a disruption, typically owned by IT or information security teams. BCP, by contrast, is framed as a personnel‑centric, commercial plan that keeps the organization operating during the outage—covering communication methods, paper‑based processes, and employee safety and health. The speaker emphasizes that DR handles the behind‑the‑scenes restoration, while BCP ensures people and business functions continue in the interim.

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And I think functionally that DR plan is how do I rebuild a system? What's that tactical plan to bring things back online and what that actual functional plan is? Like, my stuff's gone, I know how to rebuild it. And where is it at? That, I believe, really should stay within the realm of IT or information security, depending who runs that. I think that's a clear line of ownership. The BCP plan is more function. How do I just keep things running in the meantime? Back to that communication strategy. Do I need a phone? Do I go to paper processes? That's the content. How do I keep people safe and healthy? So it's almost a personal personnel plan and a commercial plan versus the behind-the-scenes nuts and bolts with what you have in a DR, how to actually physically restore a system or bring, bring operations back up and running.