Business Continuity (BCM) is a process that provides a framework to ensure flexibility of the business in to any conditions and to ensure continuity of service to key customers and protection of the brand and organizational reputation. It provides continuity of management and governance processes supported by top management to ensure that essential steps are taken to identify the impact of potential losses, maintain practical and timely recovery strategy, ensure continuity of products/services, and provide a basis for planning to ensure the organization’s long-term survivability following a disruptive event. There is a slightest difference between BCP and DRP. Business Continuity Planning provides detailed procedures to facilitate continuity of business operations while the Disaster Recovery Planning provides detailed procedures to facilitate continuation of IT capabilities at an alternate site.

During BCP and DRP Audit Elate IT bare stress in evaluating the business continuity plans to determine their adequacy, concurrency and reliability, by reviewing the plans and comparing them to appropriate international standards one of those is BS 25999-2:2007, those companies who either are in process of deploying or already have deployed BCP, Elate IT provides organization independent BCP process evaluations according to latest and leading practices;