Disaster recovery has been contemplated by most organizations.B If your company is at all regulated, you probably created a disaster recovery plan and filed it with the regulatory agency.
Is that enough?B And, has it been tested?
Thereb s nothing like a good disaster simulation to force you to think about things that wouldnb t normally come to mind-until there is an actual disaster, of course.B Once you know what youb ll likely face, itb s much easier to determine whether itb s a risk youb re willing to take.
Can you live with the simple b send everyone home planb ?B If so, make sure you have a good off-site backup that has been fully tested and youb re in good shape.B If not, you need to consider more costly alternatives that will mitigate much more risk.
When I ran the CPA firm, we didnb t have the relatively inexpensive ways to mitigate these risks that exist today.B When a server went down, we lost thousands of dollars.B It was a risk and a cost we lived with.
What would I like to leave you with?B If you havenb t tested your backup recently, donb t put it off any longer.B And, really contemplate the risk youb re taking with the disaster recovery plan youb ve adopted.
