IT Contingency Planning
Ensure essential functions continue during critical situations—outages, cyber incidents, disasters—through tested plans and recovery capability.
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IT contingency and continuity planning (BCP/DR) prepares organizations to sustain mission-critical operations when primary systems fail. Industry guidance (e.g., NIST SP 800-34) emphasizes business impact analysis, recovery time/point objectives (RTO/RPO), alternate processing, and regular exercises.
Cyber incidents add unique failure modes: ransomware encryption, destructive wipers, and identity compromise. Plans must assume partial trust loss and include offline recovery paths.
Key building blocks
Business impact analysis
Map processes to systems, dependencies, and maximum tolerable downtime.
Recovery objectives
Define how fast and how far back systems must be restored.
Incident playbooks
Roles, communications, failover steps, and decision authority.
Exercises
Tabletops and technical failovers that expose gaps before reality does.