How Do You Prepare A Disaster Recovery Plan?
During a disaster, much of the attention is focused on the human element. However businesses also suffer greatly under such circumstances and can face total failure without a proper disaster recovery plan in place to mitigate the effects of the catastrophe. Just as parents develop disaster plans for their families, business leaders need to develop business recovery plans to ensure that their companies will stay afloat and be able to continue to provide desperately needed services, employment and stability in the aftermath of a disaster. Identify the disasters most likely to occur in your area–the local chapter of the American Red Cross can often help with this, as can area emergency management agencies. Predict how those disasters might affect your company’s ability to do business during and immediately after the event. Remember to consider the possibility of man made disasters, such as acts of terrorism, or targeted disasters, such as the destruction of sensitive corporate data banks
