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Recovery:
Utilising the procedures and timescales specified within the Business Continuity Plan that enable an organisation to continue with its critical activities after a disruption
Recovery Resources:
Key staff, equipment and information required, over time, in order to recover the business
Recovery Timescales:
The critical path of actions and activities that describe the speed and prioritisation of the recovery process
Regular / Regularly:
Procedures and activities taking place in a periodic timescale, (e.g. quarterly)
Rehearsal:
Exercising or Testing the Business Continuity Plan in part or in whole to ensure that it contains up to date and appropriate information that will produce the desired result during or after an Incident.
Resilience:
Ability of an organisation to work through the effects of an Incident, (e.g. in the event of a power failure a backup generator provides greater resilience)
Response:
The reaction to an Incident in order to assess the seriousness of its impact and how to contain that impact and the counter-measures required, (e.g. activating your Business Continuity Plan)
Restore:
See System Restore
Resume / Resumption:
The implementation of steps enabling the recovery and continuity of an organisation"s critical activities following an Incident, (e.g. continuing delivery of products or services to a Key Customer meeting their specific deadlines)
Risk:
The chance or likelihood of something happening and its potential impact on your business.
Risk Assessment:
The process of risk identification, analysis and evaluation of any likely impact on your business
Risk Transfer:
The means of addressing risk through insurance cover, (e.g. Business Interruption Insurance)
Roles and Responsibilities:
Incident Management Team members are allocated a role with specific responsibilities, these roles, along with other Recovery resources will act to minimise the impact of an Incident on an organisation, (The Incident Management Team must comprise people , in the organisation, best suited to the roles and most able to carry out the responsibilities)