DRJ Glossary of Business Continuity Terms

Communications Recovery

The component of disaster recovery which deals with the restoration or rerouting of an organization's telecommunication network, or its components, in the event of loss.

Consortium Agreement

An agreement made by a group of organizations to share processing facilities and/or office facilities, if one member of the group suffers a disaster.

Contact List

A list of key people to be notified at the time of disruption or as needed. The contact data used by Call Tree and Cascade processes and systems.

Contact Tracing

The method of tracking and containing the spread of infectious diseases with exposed individuals to identify the people whom they have had close contact during the incubation period of the illness. Applies to both symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals.

Contingency

The process of preparing for an unforeseen event or circumstance.

Contingency Fund

A budget for meeting and managing operating expense at the time of a business continuity invocation.

Contingency Plan

An event specific preparation that is executed to protect an organization from certain and specific identified risks and/or threats. A plan to deal with specific set of adverse circumstances.

Contingency Planning

Process of developing advanced arrangements and procedures that enable an organization to respond to an undesired event that negatively impacts the organization.

Continuance of Government (COG)

This is a US concept for how government entities plan to continue the key elements of public governance in emergency situations.

Continuance Of Operations Planning

This has applicability mainly in the United States. In most countries BC plans are used for both private and public sector bodies including government entities. In the US COOP is sometimes used as an alternative term to BCM even in the private sector.