What are the key components of a business continuity plan?

A business continuity plan ensures that critical business functions continue during and after a disruption. Key components include a business impact analysis that identifies critical functions and their recovery priorities, risk assessment of threats to those functions, recovery strategies defining how each function will be restored, plan documentation with step-by-step procedures, communication plans for notifying employees, customers, and stakeholders, testing and exercises to validate the plan works, and maintenance procedures to keep the plan current. ---