When the worst happens, a well-prepared team can make all the difference. In this episode, we examine the roles of incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning. You’ll learn how to define incidents, contain them quickly, and document findings for later analysis. We walk through the phases of incident response and how they relate to ITIL and NIST frameworks.

We also explore how to create disaster recovery plans that account for data loss, hardware failure, and physical site unavailability. Finally, we differentiate between recovery and continuity: disaster recovery gets you back online, while business continuity keeps operations running in the meantime. This episode prepares you to think about resilience, not just redundancy.