Prepare for the worst: Create a disaster recovery plan to ensure your business can survive any crisis.

Disaster recovery planning

Disaster recovery planning is a process of creating a plan to recover or continue operations after a disaster.

The disaster can be natural, like a hurricane, earthquake or flood, or man-made, like a cyber attack, power outage or terrorist attack.

The goal of disaster recovery planning is to minimize the impact of the disaster on the business and its customers.

A disaster recovery plan should include procedures for restoring critical business functions, data, and IT infrastructure.

It should also identify the roles and responsibilities of key personnel during the recovery process.

Disaster recovery planning should be an ongoing process that is reviewed and updated regularly to ensure that the plan remains relevant and effective.

The plan should be tested periodically to verify that it works as intended and to identify areas for improvement.

Effective disaster recovery planning can help businesses avoid significant financial losses, damage to reputation, and loss of customer trust.

It can also ensure that the business is able to continue operations and provide essential services to customers.

Originally published at Clever Cloud Security.
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