In Cyber Security is Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Important?

Planning seats as the very key in all organisations. As part of planning organisations ensures that business continuity and disaster recovery are initiated. Even at a very scant scene all organisations and or those entrusted in charge have thought even about what would happen when a disaster occurred affecting the organisation; Questions are raised such as what will happen to customer private information in the case of a public leak, malicious and unauthorised access and distribution of private information? What will become of financial transaction records in the event of a catastrophe like fire, earthquake to the organisation?

These key questions are only addressed by the system called Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. Countries (e.g a "Zambian disaster management act no 13, which was assented to on the 13th April 2010) have gone ahead to develop policies, plan and manage for such uneventful days making this system a very important aspect starting from an individual straight to nations. It makes business continuity a very important part of planning for all organisations. Business Continuity concerned with processes and procedures will address areas such as how the business key functions is going to continue to operate in the and after incidence of disturbances. Potential business continuity problems may include the illness or departure of key organisational members, a supply chain breakdown, catastrophic failures or critical malware infections. On the other hand the Disaster Recovery aspect will be specific and plan for inadvertent events happening and how the business will rise and recover to continue in its operations. e.g How backups will be restored and databases made functional, accessible to the organisation after a malware outbreak . The disaster recovery unit will also ensure and ascertain for mitigations in the and during aftermath ?