What are business continuity and disaster recovery?
Court operations are essential to the functioning of society, and extended interference in court business can bring devastating consequences. Business continuity is the ability to continue operations in the face of a disaster. It means having a plan for how to continue business and restore operations quickly when disaster occurs. A business with a viable continuity plan will be better equipped to continue activities when its assets are damaged until “business as usual” can resume. This requires identification of critical business functions, risks to these critical functions, and ways to avoid or mitigate risks. Court leaders must work together to ensure the successful creation and implementation of such a plan.A disaster is any event that results in death or serious injury or in a business being unable to continue its services temporarily or permanently. Business and disaster recovery focus on restoring personnel and asset levels to a minimum necessary “critical mass” for continuing op
