Thoughts and Resources on Disaster Planning and Recovery
From new dog old trick:
"A few thoughts on disaster planning and recovery for business...
1. Planning is one thing, practice is another.... Plans created in a conference room to satisfy a requirement (e.g. for when the insurance inspector asks to see your company's evacuation plan for earthquake or fire preparedness) or to qualify for funding (when a city or state has to tick a box on a FEMA form to qualify for Federal matching funds or grants - hello New Orleans) which are then never practiced (or even communicated) are useless - maybe even worse than no plan at all. If you are serious about having your facilities, your information, your staff, your customers protected and prepared for a disaster you MUST combine planning with instruction and practice....
2. Do you have an information back-up plan that has been rigorously tested - on a regular basis? Where is your off-site storage?... Is your information in multiple, widely separated physical locations? The critical backbone of so many companies today is their information - could you recover if your data were destroyed even if your physical facilities and staff were unaffected?
3. Have you done an insurance review recently?...
4. Don't rely on government - not local, not state, not federal. You - and only you - need to have planned and prepared for how to protect your business."
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