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Best Practices for Small & Medium Sized Businesses

AT&T

The tragic events of September 11th and Hurricane Katrina have raised awareness of business continuity and disaster recovery at all businesses. These are extreme examples of threats against which businesses must be protected, and luckily, these events are rare and isolated. For most businesses the threats that must be protected against are far more mundane, though still devastating: power failures, water main breaks, storms and fires. For this reason, all businesses must make business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) part of day-to-day business planning and operations. There are many facets to successful BC/DR and this issue
paper focuses on the high-level issues that small and medium sized business must address when considering BC/DR: policy, a plan and regular audits.

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