Significant disruptions of the highest priority. An incident will be considered major if it requires separate procedures with shorter timelines, greater urgency, and a high-priority (sometimes all-hands) response.

Policy and Programme Management and Embedding Business Continuity stages of the BCM Lifecycle.

Set of interrelated or interacting elements of an organization to establish policies and objectives, and processes to achieve those objectives.

An alternate method for continuing critical business services or processes following the loss of technology.

A safe area where resources and personnel not immediately required can be directed to standby to await further instruction.

Time it would take for adverse impacts, which might arise as a result of not providing a product/service or performing an activity, to become unacceptable.

The time it would take for adverse impacts, which might arise as a result of not providing a product/service or performing and activity, to become unacceptable.

A minimum level of services and/or products that is acceptable to the organization to achieve its business objectives during a disruption.

A recovery strategy imperative, established by an organization, which mandates how long each contingency plan's recovery strategy is expected to endure, while relying only on resources or dependencies identified in the plan.

A recovery strategy imperative, established by an organization, which identifies the minimum geographic range of an event that its contingency plans must address.