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Business Continuity
Planning and September 11th
Business continuity
planning and September 11th. The two subjects are now
entwined forever, because September 11th has changed
forever the Business Community in North
America and realistically also the world. You need to
understand what that change means for your organization. These
changes are numerous and far reaching.
Business continuity
planning and September 11th – second time
around
The biggest interest
in BCP came in about 1998 when we were all planning for Y2K with
virtually every utility; every major organization in the US had a pretty good BCP
plan for multiple simultaneous failures.
Overall that was an
excellent time for BCP. Since then we have noticed that some of
these plans have actually not been maintained, the people that
designed the plans have moved on.
So there was a lot of
organizations who have significantly changed architecture but still
are using a business impact analysis that was conducted in 1996 as
the basis for the BSP!
Business continuity
planning and September 11th – more focus on
prevention
Many organizations
have looked at those events at those events and taken a view that
firstly we have to prevent them.
If we cannot prevent
them, we have got to have plans in place to respond because the
protective measures against these types of terrorist attacks are
pretty difficult to prevent if somebody is really intent on getting
into your organization and causing some form of catastrophe.
It is pretty difficult
to defend against that, particularly when they are taking the
measures and doing the things that they are.
Explore the Disaster Recovery
Toolkit
Contains 18 ready to use templates for successful
Disaster Recovery Planning / IT Service Continuity
Management
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