Glossary

What is Business Continuity Plan (BCP)?

A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a documented set of procedures that guides an organisation in continuing and recovering critical functions during and after a disruption.

A good BCP is specific and actionable: activation criteria, roles and responsibilities, call trees, recovery procedures with time targets (RTO), required resources, and communication steps. It should be usable under stress, by someone who didn't write it.

Plans go stale fast. The discipline that matters is versioning, approval, scheduled review and exercising — not the length of the document.

Resilira builds plans from structured blocks rather than freeform prose, freezes an immutable approved snapshot with a 'data as of' stamp, and exports a branded PDF that works offline when systems are down.

Put the theory to work.

Resilira turns these concepts into a running program — BIA, plans and compliance, audit-ready in days.