Gartner defines business continuity management program solutions as the primary tools used by organizations to manage all phases of the business continuity management (BCM) life cycle, from planning to crisis activation. BCMP solutions provide capabilities for availability risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), business process and resource/asset dependency mapping, recovery plan management, exercise and crisis management, and BCMP management metrics and analysis.
Gartner defines IT vendor risk management (IT VRM) as the discipline of addressing the residual risk that businesses and governments face when working with external service providers, IT vendors and related third parties. The scope typically addresses risks related to data protection, business continuity, security and other risk domains as relevant to laws, regulation and industry practices.
Gartner defines Integrated risk management (IRM) as the combined technology, processes and data that serves to fulfill the objective of enabling the simplification, automation and integration of strategic, operational and IT risk management across an organization.