What’s Holding Business Continuity Back?
In government and business, there continues to be more discussion than doing in the realm of disaster recovery and business continuity. One hears a lot of talk about “10/12″ – the next 9/11 – which everyone from the familiar crepe hangers and doomsayers to the most heads-in-the-clouds pollyannas agrees is more or less inevitable.
“Add to that the weather-related disaster potentials that NASA weather models predict will worsen this year, the well-documented vulnerabilities of aging power and telecommunications infrastructures, and ongoing problems in information technology that range from poor interoperability standards to improved malware and hacking techniques, and you have a confluence of threats that could best be described as the Perfect Storm.
“Yet, 50 percent of respondents to just about every survey taken about disaster preparedness report that they have no DR or BC plan whatsoever. And, of those who say they do have a capability, 30 to 50 percent report that they have never tested their plans – which is tantamount to having no plans at all.
“There are many explanations for this misalignment between threat and preparedness. Perhaps the biggest hurdles to better alignment have to do with budgetary constraints, an overcomplicating of the planning process, and a failure to design recovery into the IT infrastructure.”
See What’s Holding Business Continuity Back? Confronting the Conundrums of Business Continuity, by Jon William Toigo for COntinuity Forum.
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