Disaster Recovery Plan: Failing to plan is planning to fail

They say that “It takes years to build a business but takes only minutes to lose it.” VinnyTroia, a certified ethical hacker, disaster recovery specialist, and founder of Night Lion Security, wants every business owner to understand that the possibility of something unpleasant happening to a business is very high.

"This can't happen to me," Troia believes that several businesspersons were deceived by this mindset although it doesn’t excuse them to threats and dangers in future. Disaster recovery is necessary for the survival and prolonged existence of every company.

Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) refers to specific steps taken to resume operations in the aftermath of a catastrophic natural disaster or national emergency. It contains a structured approach for responding to unplanned incidents that threaten an IT infrastructure, which includes hardware, software, networks, processes and people. Each business must possess a unique disaster recovery plan that is based on  company’s structure and necessities.

The beauty of using DRP includes the efficiency of asset, inventory and network management, task redundancy, cost savings, ability to test and a lot more. Benefits always encompass cost. A clever business owner always anticipates and prepares for future events.

Total absence or lack of plans can result to a great damage to company’s asset, loss of lots of money and in worst case scenario, shut down of business. One’s business is expose to greater risk from this time than any other time in history due to climate changes and presence of countless computer malware.

In accounting, a business project is accepted if benefits exceed cost. Having a DRP will always be a win-win operation to every business entities for the reason that while no plan can guarantee success, inadequate plans are proven contributors to failure.

Doug Rezner once said, “A business continuity planner is more powerful than all the king's horses and all the king's men, because with a plan in place we "can" put Humpty Dumpty back together again!”