What’s the difference between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?

Updated November 2026: rewritten and expanded with a side-by-side comparison, RTO and RPO explained, real-world scenarios (including ransomware and Microsoft 365), and a step-by-step guide to building and testing a BCDR plan. The short answer: business continuity (BC) is how your organisation keeps operating during a disruption: people, premises, suppliers, communications and IT. Disaster recovery

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