Planning for Disaster and Recovery

The first step in planning for disaster and recovery is to identify what your organization needs to conduct business operations. In other words, what do you need to operate? That is often a more difficult question to answer than it initially appears. A good place to start is to consider walking into a brand-new facility with nothing inside. What would you need to conduct business? Telephones? Furniture? Computers? It should quickly become clear that starting from scratch isn’t easy. That’s why having a plan in place to protect what you really need to stay in business is important.

Policies, Procedures, Priorities, and Practices

Every organization must plan for response to a variety of foreseeable disasters. ...

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