BCP Terms and How They Differ

By KingsBridge BCP/on January 26, 2021/in Glossary/ tags BCP, business continuity, Business Continuity Program, terms / No Comments

It’s not alphabet soup – we promise! Like any niche field, Business Continuity (BCP) has its own set of terms. The process of protecting your business can be stressful enough. The last thing you want or need is to get lost in the jargon while you evaluate BCP solutions. To help clear the air, let’s […]

Emergency Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Putting Incidents in Context

By KingsBridge BCP/on January 12, 2021/in Business Continuity, Glossary/ tags Business Continuity Program, disaster recovery, emergency response, glossary / No Comments

You’ve likely heard the terms before and may have an idea of their definition, but how do Emergency Response, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity work together during an incident? Putting incidents in context is the goal of this blog post. Putting Incidents in Context You are sitting in your office building and the fire alarm […]

Stop Confusing Emergency Response with Business Continuity

By Roswitha Firth/on December 2, 2020/in Glossary/ tags business continuity, Business Continuity Plan, emergency response / No Comments

Imagine the following: You are sitting in your office when you hear the fire alarm go off. You sigh, look around to see if anyone else is leaving, logout of your computer, and head toward the exit. Once outside you see there is a problem; smoke is streaming from an upper office window. People on the […]

Incident or Disaster

By Roswitha Firth/on September 3, 2020/in Glossary/ tags business continuity, disaster, incident / No Comments

Is the sky falling? Or are we over sensitive? Disasters seem very common these days. Especially if you’re reading news and social media headlines. It appears that we are under almost daily assault by a variety of common and obscure threats that are presented to us as disasters: catastrophic – or nearly so – for […]

Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery?

By Roswitha Firth/on August 10, 2020/in Glossary/ tags business continuity, disaster recovery, glossary / No Comments

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A Business Continuity plan or a Disaster Recovery plan? How do you know which of these you should be writing for your company? Is there even a difference between the two? The short answer is yes, there is a difference! And it is not intuitive. Most people hear the words ‘disaster recovery’ and assume that […]

Records Management for BCP

By Roswitha Firth/on July 27, 2020/in Glossary/ tags Business Continuity Plan, Business Continuity Program, documentation / No Comments

Records management is an ongoing struggle for many businesses, especially when it comes to Business Continuity Planning (BCP). Every time we go to a client site we get asked about what to do with all of the information the business generates. Where should it be stored? How should it be accessed, and by whom? And […]

Disruption vs Disaster… What’s the big deal?

By KingsBridge BCP/on June 18, 2020/in Glossary/ tags disaster, disruptions / No Comments

Each year as winter gets closer our clients start to think about winter weather and how it impacts their business. If you are one of the lucky ones in the south, pray for a warm winter and no snow! But as always, we are asked the same thing every year – “How can we better protect […]