Business Continuity Plan (BCP) template
Documents how your organisation maintains critical operations during disruptions (cyber attack, outage, pandemic, natural disaster). Sets RTO/RPO targets, key personnel, escalation paths, and recovery procedures. Essential for FCA-regulated firms and increasingly required by enterprise customers.
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A business continuity plan sets out how an organisation will keep critical activities running during and after a disruption. It identifies priorities, responsibilities, and recovery arrangements. A tested plan improves resilience and shortens the time taken to restore normal operations.
Who needs one: Organisations that need to maintain essential services through disruptive events.
What a strong business continuity plan (bcp) covers
- Identification of critical business functions
- Business impact analysis and recovery priorities
- Roles, responsibilities, and the response team
- Recovery time and recovery point objectives
- Communication plans for staff and stakeholders
- Testing, exercising, and plan maintenance
Regulations and frameworks this aligns to
PolicyKit references the standards relevant to your jurisdiction when it generates your business continuity plan (bcp).
- ISO 22301
- The international standard specifying requirements for a business continuity management system to help organisations prepare for and recover from disruption.
- NIST SP 800-34
- A US guide providing best-practice methodology for contingency planning to support the recovery of information systems after disruption.
Frequently asked questions
What should a business continuity plan (bcp) include?
A robust business continuity plan (bcp) sets out scope, roles and responsibilities, the specific controls or procedures involved, and how compliance is monitored and reviewed, mapped to frameworks like iso-22301, nist-sp-800-34. PolicyKit structures all of this automatically based on your business.
Is this legal advice?
No. PolicyKit generates AI-assisted professional templates and starting points, not legal advice. Every document should be reviewed with qualified legal and compliance counsel before use.
Can I tailor it to my country?
Yes — PolicyKit tailors each document to your jurisdiction, including UK, EU, United States, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and more.
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