Planning for Physical Disaster
- Topics:
- Disaster Planning and Management
- Tags:
- Data Management,
- Disaster Recovery,
- Management,
- Risk,
- Security,
- Strategy,
- Threat
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Overview: The tragic disasters on September 11, 2001, were a horrible reminder of how precarious and precious life is. It gave us a lesson to be prepared for the risks that may be ahead. One tool for the preparation is disaster planning. This article is a discussion of three basic steps in the disaster planning process. They are: assess exposure to various risks, implement strategies to prevent, mitigate, or recover from identified risks and prepare and maintain a disaster recovery plan. The first step in preparing to face a physical disaster is to conduct a Risk Impact Assessment (RIA) of threats, vulnerabilities, and exposure to loss. Threats or vulnerabilities can be of three types: Physical threats (fire, natural hazards), Computer and communications threats (data loss or corruption) and People-related threats (civil unrest, labor action). In the second step, the strategies can be made according to the risks or threats. Three types of sample strategies are: strategies for general risks, strategies for specific physical risks, and strategies for information technology (IT) risks.
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Format: HTML | Date: Oct 2001 | Pages: 1
