Capterra Glossary
DRP (Disaster Recovery Planning)
Disaster recovery planning (DRP) is the formal process of preparing for disasters, which can encompass everything from a major cyberattack to a serious weather event. DRP involves a variety of prepatory components, including data backup, contingency planning, securing documents/equipment offsite, and more. It also involves some level of financial planning and saving money to manage any revenue loss.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About DRP (Disaster Recovery Planning)
Statistics show that between 40% to 60% of all small businesses do not recover from a disaster. As such, every small business, regardless of its size or location, should prepare a disaster recovery plan that can enable them to continue operating or recover from a disaster.
Related Terms
- Synchronous
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Intranet
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Scalability
- Data Center
- Authorization
- Multitenancy