Hello Friends & Business Associates –

Since it’s tax season, let’s talk disaster – in in this case Disaster Recovery.  

Disaster recovery is the area of security planning that deals with protecting an organization, small business, or a home user from the effects, generally speaking, of major events, in our case regarding computer operations. Significant negative events, in this context, can include anything that puts operations or information at risk. This might be cyberattacks, equipment failures, human error, power outages, and/or natural disasters. 

For many of our business clients, we have a general disaster recovery plan, if the client supports and follows our recommendations.  A disaster recovery plan documents policies, procedures and actions to limit the disruption to operations in the wake of a disaster. Just as a disaster is an event that makes normal functions limited or impossible, a disaster recovery plan consists of actions intended to minimize the negative effects of a disaster and allow operations to maintain or quickly resume mission-critical functions.

In information technology, disaster recovery steps may include restoring PC’s or Servers with backups, placement of alternate systems for intermediate operation, and/or re-establish local area networks (LANs) or Internet to meet immediate business needs.

I strongly recommend you have your operations evaluated and a general plan of action defined and prepared.  It’s one of those things we always acknowledge we need to get to but sometimes never do.  When it’s too late – it’s too late.  Honest truth – I have had two (2) client facilities lost to fire.  We had a general plan of action, the most CRITICAL being good backups, and were able to get operational in a reasonable amount of time.