Cybersecurity Glossary
Business Continuity
How the organisation keeps operating while the technology is unavailable.
What Business Continuity means
Business continuity is wider than technology. It asks how you take orders, pay people, reach clients and meet obligations when systems are down. That usually means agreed manual fallbacks, an alternative communication channel, and clear authority to make decisions.
Why Business Continuity matters for small businesses and nonprofits
Clients, funders and insurers increasingly ask for this in writing. More practically, the first hours of an incident are chaotic, and a short written plan prevents the most expensive improvised decisions.
What to do about Business Continuity
- Identify the handful of processes that genuinely cannot stop
- Agree a communication channel that does not depend on your own email
- Rehearse once a year with the people who would actually be involved
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