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Vital records and business continuity planning

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As business continuity and disaster recovery professionals we continue to address the rapidly changing face of business and technology. We are caught up in the frenzy of our employers or clients wishing to converge their voice and data networks. We must maintain the RTOs and RPOs necessary to restore mission critical infrastructures along with all of the electronic data that moves across networks or is stored on magnetic media. We know that companies that go through a severe loss of mission critical computerized records may never reopen.

However, as we have seen from past disasters, like those suffered during hurricanes Katrina and Rita or even the most recent floods in the Midwestern portions of the United States, that electronic and digital data is not the only medium of information critical to an organization’s business mission. Neither is electronic data the only storage medium of importance to customers or patients who rely upon critical paper records and their protection for their financial futures or health and wellbeing.

Disasters such as floods, fires and tornadoes can happen almost anywhere and at any time. Some come with prior warning, but most do not. With hurricanes there is often advanced warning, but the actual ultimate severity is still pretty much a ‘best guess’ due to the complex factors which can change a category three into a category five or change the final direction of a storm. Those changes can mean the difference between severe flooding, levee breaches, and near absolute destruction of property or just a lot of rain and some local street flooding and wind damage.

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