Are you following Best Practice in your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity preparation?

Best practice Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) Planning. A man with Asian features prepares for a disaster. He has a bandanna and a military backpack. He is holding a keyboard in one hand and wearing a business suit and tie as well.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are two much-discussed topics, with universal agreement among executives as to their importance.  In practical terms, however, most organisations’ DR and BC plans are not regularly reviewed for their currency or stress-tested for their ease of implementation in an emergency.

Here’s our guide to the best practice in setting, reviewing and regularly testing your DR and BC plan.

Too Few Companies Prepare For Disaster Recovery. How Does Yours Rate?

Disaster Recovery - Be prepared with Computer One

Last week it emerged that 3 out of a group of 4 health services whose disaster recovery preparations have been assessed by the Queensland Audit Office have only basic DR measures in place. Computerworld reports that Cairns, Mackay and South West Hospitals and Health Services only scored a 1 on the capability maturity model used