Do You Have a Disaster Recovery Plan?

Admittedly, we harp on Cybersecurity a lot. So, here’s a change of subject:

What about the other potential dangers to your business?

If you’re running your business in the cloud (Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, QuickBooks Online, etc) and files or records just disappear one day, what’s the impact? Yes, sometimes the cloud has a hiccup and permanently loses stuff. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen.

What would happen if one of your employees went rogue and altered accounting software entries, deleted documents and research, or emails? One of the easiest ways to cause a major problem is to delete or alter older, seldom needed data before they leave your organization. If it’s in the cloud and it goes unnoticed for a few months, then it’s probably gone for good.

Do you store your important files and projects on computers at your office? Maybe on individual workstations or laptops? What would happen if the device had a hard drive failure or was stolen? There’s been many a horror story from engineering firms that have had to start over on projects because of data loss. Sometimes there’s not enough time to start over and the contract is lost.

We live on the Gulf Coast. Hurricanes, tornados, floods, and fires are all on the table. If your office is destroyed, how long would it take you to get another one going? What would be lost?

All of these scenarios are taken into account when building a Disaster Recovery plan. The goal of any such playbook should be to get the business back on its feet as soon as hours or as late as a few days. All without loss of data or progress. This might mean having another network complete with ready-to-go computers on standby in another location or it might mean having a failover business model that allows everyone to Work From Home and temporarily forward office phone numbers and extensions over to personal cellphones.

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