BAU - Business As Usual
BCI - Business Continuity Institute
BCM - Business Continuity Management
BCMS - Business Continuity Management System
BCP - Business Continuity Plan
BIA - Business Impact Analysis
Business Continuity Exercise - Practicing the BCP - e.g. a DR Test
DR - Disaster Recovery
IMT - Incident Management Team
Incident - Something that happens to threaten BAU. Examples include: Power outages, Floods, Fires, IT Outages, Cyber-attacks, Pandemics etc.
Invocation - The act of declaring that the BCP needs to be put into effect
ISO 22301 - BCM Certification
RPO - Recovery Point Objective
RTO - Recovert Time Objective
WAR - Work Area Recovery - where BAU activities will relocate during an incident. Sometimes referred to as the War Room.
Business Continuity Management involves:
Planning
Recovery
Management
BAU
Risk Management
Resilience
Procedures