// THREAT DETECTION AND DATA PRIVACY TERM

Continuity

Continuity refers to an organization's ability to maintain essential functions during and after a disruptive event, like a cyberattack or natural disaster. It's the overarching strategy for keeping the business running despite significant challenges.

TECHNICAL DEFINITION

Continuity in cybersecurity is the strategic framework encompassing Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery (DR) to ensure operational resilience and the uninterrupted delivery of critical business functions during and after an incident, system failure, or cyberattack, guided by Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).

BACKGROUND

In computer science, a cyberattack is an attack targeted at computer systems. It occurs when there is an unauthorized action against computer infrastructure that compromises the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of its content.

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SYNONYMS & ALIASES

  • Business Continuity
  • Operational Resilience
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Contingency Planning
  • BC/DR
  • Service Continuity

USAGE NOTE

While often used with 'Disaster Recovery' (DR), Continuity is broader, focusing on the entire business process, whereas DR is the technical component of restoring IT systems and data.

DEVELOPERS

Organizations developing technology related to Continuity.

  • Zerto (an HPE company)

    Develops a disaster recovery and data protection platform based on continuous data protection (CDP) for virtualized and cloud environments, enabling rapid recovery with minimal data loss after disruptions like cyberattacks.

  • Veeam

    Provides a platform for data backup, recovery, and data management solutions for virtual, physical, and multi-cloud infrastructures, which is a core component of modern business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) strategies.

  • Rubrik

    Develops a data security platform that provides data backup, recovery, and cyber resilience. Its technology focuses on immutable backups and rapid, orchestrated recovery to maintain operations after a ransomware attack.

  • Druva

    Offers a SaaS-based Data Resiliency Cloud for data protection, backup, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience. Its cloud-native architecture is designed to ensure data is available and recoverable for business continuity.

  • Cohesity

    Provides a data management platform that consolidates backup, disaster recovery, and data security. The technology is designed to protect against cyber threats and ensure business continuity by enabling rapid, large-scale data recovery.

  • Acronis

    Creates integrated cyber protection solutions that combine data backup and disaster recovery with AI-enhanced anti-malware and security features to ensure business continuity and system integrity.

  • Veritas Technologies

    An enterprise data management company that develops solutions for data protection, backup, and recovery, including its NetBackup platform, to ensure organizational resilience and business continuity.

  • Datto (a Kaseya company)

    Specializes in business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solutions, including hardware appliances and cloud services that enable near-instant virtualization and recovery of systems and data to minimize downtime.

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