Business Continuity Management involves:

• Planning

• Recovery

• Management

• BAU

• Risk Management

• Resilience

• Procedures

• Availability Group - a logical grouping of systems, services, or resources designed to work together to provide continuous service — even when one or more components fail. (Redundancy and Failover)

• BAU - Business As Usual

• BCI - Business Continuity Institute

• BCM - Business Continuity Management

• BCMS - Business Continuity Management System

• BCP - Business Continuity Plan

• BIA - Business Impact Analysis

• Business Continuity Exercise - Practicing the BCP - e.g. a DR Test

• DR - Disaster Recovery

• Failover - when something fails and immediately and automatically switches over to a redundant copy.

• Failure Group - a set of resources that are likely to fail together due to shared dependencies (like shared power, network switch, or storage).

• IMT - Incident Management Team

• Incident - Something that happens to threaten BAU. Examples include: Power outages, Floods, Fires, IT Outages, Cyber-attacks, Pandemics etc.

• Invocation - The act of declaring that the BCP needs to be put into effect

• ISO 22301 - BCM Certification

• Redundancy - you should distribute redundant components across different failure groups

• RPO - Recovery Point Objective

• RTO - Recovert Time Objective

• SPOF - Single Point Of Failure

• Switchover - manual invocation of a failover (normally allowing for actions to eliminate data loss)

• WAR - Work Area Recovery - where BAU activities will relocate during an incident. Sometimes referred to as the War Room.