Things such as fire, floods and other sorts of disasters can easily destroy your Information Technology infrastructure and data in an instant – plus your premises of course. So, here are our top tips for how you could prevent such an event bringing your company down with it.
1. Believe it can happen to you and plan accordingly. Make sure you construct a disaster recovery plan and that it is credible rather than a token effort. If you are not sure how to go about that, contact us for further assistance on things such as data recovery solutions.
2. Share your plan with at least one other person who understands it in detail. Should a disaster happen when you are off sick or out of the country, somebody else will need to implement it quickly. If you are the only one who understands it, then your absence is likely to lead to further problems.
3. Test your plan. If there are glitches or errors in it, you won’t want to discover them for the first time when you are trying to put it into real life action.
4. Maintain it. Having a plan is useless if it is years out of date and doesn’t take into account your current IT and wider environment.
5. Review it regularly. You will not want to discover that you’ve forgotten most of its content when you are in the process of actually trying to implement it to save your business.
It’s worth remembering that some external auditor requirements may oblige you to have such a plan in place and to periodically test it. If you don’t, you may start seeing comments in your annual audit report and that’s something that most businesses normally prefer to avoid!
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