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Business Continuity Planning:A Primer for Management and IT Personnel

The AnyKeyNow Group

The terrorist attacks upon the United States of September 11th, 2001 proved to be a wakeup call to many who had looked at business continuity and disaster recovery planning as a task that was going to be done "down the road." Besides the terrible toll that was taken on human life, many businesses, especially those in New York City, were effected severely.Some will never recover.There were, however, many examples where good business continuity planning resulted in successful resumption of operations. These example came from businesses and organizations that had made the investment in frequent disaster plan tests and updates, regular real-time backup of their data, and establishment of hot site capabilities to name a
few. In this respect, many of our large financial organizations were able to quickly resume business due to the fact that they could quickly use alternate sites to restore their information systems.We have all had to take a new look at the meaning of the "worst-case scenario" and use it as a model for good planning. It is necessary to look how disaster recovery plans and business continuity plans can compliment each other. We need to add the potential for terrorism effecting our business structures to the equation of good, defensive planning, and use the example of the incidents of September 11th to our best advantage.

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