How will your business survive a Disaster
If you are a small business owner then you probably have never thought about putting together a Disaster Recovery Plan or a Business Continuity Plan. You may have thought that a Disaster Recovery or Business Continuity Plan was too expensive or not necessary for your type of business. You couldn’t be any further from the truth. You see Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Continuity Planning built around your business and your needs.
First Lets explain what the Difference between a Business Continuity Plan a Disaster Recovery Plan is
1)Disaster Recovery Plan is actually a small subset of a Business Continuity Plan.
So Let’s Define a Business Continuity Plan
A Business Continuity Plan is a document or guide of procedure on how to handle and to continue running your business due to a Business Interruption. What is a Business Interruption. That is anything from Power Outages, Vandalism, Crime, and yes Disasters{Both Natural and Man Made}. There are many factors involved when putting one of these plans together including Financial, Legal, Human Resources, and of course technological. For the purpose of this material we are going to concentrate on the technology of this subject. Each contingency described above has its own set of rules for dealing with the interruption. A Business Continuity Plan for dealing with an Extended Power Outage is very much different then a Theft.
