Disaster recovery plan

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Management policy and procedures used to guide an enterprise response to a major loss of enterprise capability or damage to its facilities. The DRP is the second plan needed by the enterprise risk managers and is used when the enterprise must recover (at its original facilities) from a loss of capability over a period of hours or days. See Continuity of Operations Plan and Contingency Plan.

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Senses

4 more senses beyond the canonical

SANS Glossary of Security Terms

A Disaster Recovery Plan is the process of recovery of IT systems in the event of a disruption or disaster.

ISACA Cybersecurity Glossary

A set of human, physical, technical and procedural resources to recover, within a defined time and cost, an activity interrupted by an emergency or disaster

FFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012

A plan that describes the process to recover from major processing interruptions.

NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2

A written plan for recovering one or more information systems at an alternate facility in response to a major hardware or software failure or destruction of facilities.

Classifications

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Entity Type

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Variants

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acronym: DRP
plural: Disaster recovery plans
possessive: Disaster recovery plan's
pluralpossessive: Disaster recovery plans'

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