Security News > 2020 > March > COVID-19 demonstrates the need for disaster recovery and business continuity plans
Join Today The coronavirus may put organizations at risk through short staffing or unavailable workers and services, but disaster recovery and business continuity plans can help sustain business operations.
The need for a disaster recovery business continuity plan is becoming more critical as the enterprise adjusts to the business disruptions caused by the coronavirus.
SEE: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan It's not often that businesses face a pandemic, but natural disasters, man-made disasters, security threats, and an outage are a reality, and if businesses want to ensure a smooth recovery process and continuity of operations, it is critical that they do a risk assessment and develop a recovery services strategy with disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
SEE: Business Continuity Policy Businesses may also face other business disruptions such as network outages, revenue loss, data loss, security vulnerabilities and threats, and stifled productivity, to name a few examples.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency reports that "Roughly 40% to 60% of small businesses never reopen their doors following a disaster." But this doesn't have to happen when a proper disaster recovery and business continuity plan is in place.