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Business continuity planning supports an organization to continuing its operations after an incident or under adverse conditions, such as a natural disaster, disease pandemics, terrorist attacks, serious accidents, external hacker or other IT attacks, disruption of supply chains, and/or other abrupt and unexpected changes in business environment. Hence, business continuity is the organizational capability to continue delivery of products and services even under the aforementioned adverse conditions within an acceptable time frame. Business continuity planning means to identify critical core processes of the organization, to analyze business impacts, and to find backup processes and response strategies in the event of disruption. For this reason, business...

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