THREAT‑WATCH
Glossary
Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
A documented, technical plan for restoring IT systems and data after an outage or destructive event.
A DRP defines specific recovery procedures, responsible teams, and target recovery times for IT infrastructure, applications, and data, typically as a subset of a broader business continuity plan. Its two central metrics are RTO (how fast systems must come back) and RPO (how much data loss is acceptable). Untested DRPs are a common failure point; a plan that's never been rehearsed often doesn't work as written.