"A plan for ensuring that businesses will be able to recover from the effects of a destructive incident and continue to operate at an acceptable level." (C Warren Axelrod, "Responsibilities and Liabilities with Respect to Catastrophes", 2009)
"An emergency contingency plan that spells out how to recover and restore functions that have been partially or completely interrupted." (Annetta Cortez & Bob Yehling, "The Complete Idiot's Guide® To Risk Management", 2010)
"The advance planning and preparations which are necessary to identify the impact of potential losses, formulate and implement viable recovery strategies, develop recovery plan(s) which ensure continuity of organizational services in the event of an emergency or disaster, and administer a comprehensive training, testing, and maintenance program." (Mark S Merkow & Lakshmikanth Raghavan, "Secure and Resilient Software Development", 2010)
"Plan that outlines the process by which businesses should recover from a major disaster. Also known as a disaster recovery plan." (Linda Volonino & Efraim Turban, "Information Technology for Management" 8th Ed., 2011)
"A methodology used to create a plan for how an organization will resume partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined time after a disaster or disruption. BCP differentiates from disaster recovery in that DR is primarily associated with resources and facilities, while BCP is associated primarily with processes." (Bill Holtsnider & Brian D Jaffe, "IT Manager's Handbook" 3rd Ed., 2012)
"Overall planning lifecycle dedicated to analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of various elements designed to keep the organization operating even after a significant outage. Business continuity planning is a continuous process." (Darril Gibson, "Effective Help Desk Specialist Skills", 2014)
"This refers to the documented procedures and information that enable the organization and or business unit/third party agent to respond to a disruption, recover, and resume critical business functions." (Sally-Anne Pitt, "Internal Audit Quality", 2014)
"A business continuity action plan is a document or set of documents that contains the critical information a business needs to stay running in spite of adverse events. A business continuity plan is also called an emergency plan." (Adam Gordon, "Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP" CBK 4th Ed., 2015)
"Plans that document the steps to restore business operation after an interruption. BCPs, along with DRPs, enable you to recover from disruptions ranging from small to large." (Weiss, "Auditing IT Infrastructures for Compliance" 2nd Ed., 2015)
"Documented procedures that guide organizations to respond, recover, resume, and restore to a predefined level of operation following disruption." (William Stallings, "Effective Cybersecurity: A Guide to Using Best Practices and Standards", 2018)
"Business continuity plans are made up of documented procedures. Organizations use these procedures to respond to disruptive incidents, to guide recovery efforts, to resume prioritized activities, and to restore operations to acceptable predefined levels. Business continuity plans usually identify the services, activities, and resources needed to ensure that prioritized business activities and functions could continue whenever disruptions occur." (ISO 22301:2012, 2012).
"Plan defining the steps required to restore business processes following a disruption" (ITIL)
"The documentation of a predetermined set of instructions or procedures that describe how an organization’s mission/business processes will be sustained during and after a significant disruption." (CNSSI 4009-2015)
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