An Emergency Response Plan tells you how to survive the first hours and days of an incident. It does not, by itself, tell you how the organization keeps functioning for the weeks after, or how a lock on a gate and a password on a SCADA login are now part of the same security problem, or how your utility gets systematically better after every real event instead of just moving on. This second Advanced Emergency Management guide covers those three higher-order disciplines: business continuity, cyber-physical security convergence, and after-action review.
Business Continuity Planning
BCP vs. ERP
It's easy to conflate a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) with an ERP, but they answer different questions. The ERP answers: how do we respond to this specific hazard right now to protect life, public health, and the system? The BCP answers a broader question: *how does the organization k