BCDR is defined as?

• A. The separate processes of maintaining business operations and restoring IT infrastructure after a disruption.
• B. The process of jointly addressing business resiliency and restoration of critical infrastructure and functionality after a disruption.
• C. A plan for incident response for security breaches only.
• D. A method for testing business continuity plans quarterly.

Answer: (B)

BCDR refers to the integrated effort that jointly focuses on keeping business operations resilient and restoring critical IT infrastructure and functionality after a disruption. This definition captures both the ability to continue essential business processes during an incident (business resiliency) and the subsequent recovery of IT systems and services (disaster recovery), making it a unified, coordinated program rather than two separate activities. The other choices miss this combined scope: one suggests separate processes for business and IT, which doesn’t reflect their coordinated nature; another narrows the focus to incident response for security breaches only; and the last describes a testing cadence rather than what BCDR fundamentally is.