Business continuity requires uninterrupted availability of all key business resources required to support essential business activities.Risk management is about setting up treatments which seek to prevent the occurrence of  business interruption events (outages). It further entails establishing appropriate responses (solutions) should such an event occur. Business continuity management is viewed as the component of risk management which establishes cost-effective solutions. As such it deals with actual/risk events which have occurred and the action required responding effectively, and complimenting the overall risk management process.