Business continuity is described as an organizations ability to function even in times of crises such as natural disasters, hardware failure, electrical outages or even critical employees leaving work - in short being prepared for extraordinary situations which could cause harm to critical business operations.
By having a business continuity plan you'll ensure that fail-safe mechanisms are put in place to protect your business in case of such events earthquake, flood, fire, loss of technological equipment, software crashes, personal errors etc. , so your organization stays resilient, secure and maintains brand value in a competitive marketplace.
Disaster recovery aims to protect and backup your data without interrupting critical business operations.
Disaster Recovery, is the process of backing-up all systems and data at a different location to ensure all your critical business applications work without interruption and can be recovered in the shortest time.