Plant, machinery, equipment, property, buildings, vehicles, information systems, transportation facilities, and other items of infrastructure or plant and related systems that have a distinct and quantifiable function or service.

Another (but less popular) term for alternative or alternate. A fallback facility is another site/building that can be used when the original site/building is unusable or unavailable.

Federal Emergency Management Agency - the US agency responsible for responding to wide area disasters and emergencies.

Actual or potential losses incurred.

A member of an emergency service who is first on the scene at a disruptive incident.

Person responsible for ensuring that all employees, visitors and contractors evacuate a floor within a specific site.

A discussion held within weeks of the exercise, addressing the wider organizational issues that identifies learning opportunities.

An exercise that simulates a Business Continuity event where the organization or some of its component parts are suspended until the exercise is completed.

A full-scale exercise simulates full use of available resources (personnel and systems) prompting a full recovery of business processes.

Testing that verifies that an implementation of some function operates correctly.