Question

• How do the objectives of business continuity and disaster recovery differ in terms of protecting an organization’s information and assets?
• Is there a clear line between business continuity and disaster recovery? Do you think there is a time when these activities overlap? Provide examples to support your answer.

Answer 1

1. The objective of business continuity is to ensure that the business is up and running even in the case of a disaster or any natural or unnatural phenomena.
But in the case of disaster recovery, it is to ensure to get the systems up and running as fast as possible when the disaster strikes.
So in the case of the business continuity, there is no scope of shutdown in the systems but in the case of disaster recovery, it involves occurrence of disaster into the system. Thus business continuity has a wider scope.

2. No there is no clear line between the business continuity and disaster recovery, as the motives of both of them could be the same in some of the cases.
If in the case of business continuity there is still an occurrence of disaster and shutdown, then, in this case, the disaster recovery and business continuity will work the same way, as both of them would be in the job of getting the system up and running.
This is the point where both of them behave the same way.

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