What should security executives be doing for hurricane season?
James Lee Witt: The first thing is to make sure that you have the insurance coverage you need, whether it’s for wind or whether it’s flood insurance if your business is in a 100-year flood plain. Second, I would make sure that every employee understood that if we had to evacuate, where we would go, where we would reconvene our business so that we could continue to operate. Then, I’d make sure that I [could] send out alerts to all my employees—particularly if it was during a weekend or if employees were traveling—about what was going on and what they needed to do. So many times we forget that every dollar we invest in prevention or preparedness could potentially save us $3 to $5 in future losses, and with the business interruption side of it, it could be even higher. I would also make sure that all my customers and suppliers understood my plan—what I would need to do, how I would do it—and then I’d ask them to do likewise to make sure that the supply chain wasn’t broken. Why do you thin
