Just this past week, less than a year after the tragedy at Virginia Tech, disaster again struck in the form of a gunman at Northern Illinois University. Such situations are sadly part of the concerns today for any contingency planner in virtually
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For years, many of you have seen my Business Resumption Planning articles in NaSPA's publications.  The focus has almost always been on the Fortune 1000 enterprise, and more specifically on the U.S. Fortune 1000 enterprise.  I have on occasion, however, addressed the public and or socioeconomic side of Disaster Recovery Planning, either as a former Mayor and City Councilman or telecom expert.  (Relax on the Mayor thing, I'm ‘better' now...)    read more »

Some of you may recall about a year ago, I introduced a new concept-the Disaster Recovery cheat sheet.  Think of it as "fast food" for your recovery plan.  The cheat sheet is intended to be a quick guide to some fast and inexpensive changes, updates or modifications you can make to your recovery plan in order to make it more resilient.   read more »

Last month we discussed the advantages of satellite communications in a disaster, most notably for the "4Ci" aspects of Disaster Recovery (Command, Control, Communications, Computers and intelligence) as well as for restoring communications to and from your customers.
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A few months ago we touched on satellite communications in an article on wireless communications. Given the recent rash of "mega disasters" however, when for all practical purposes the communications infrastructure in the affected area ceases to exist, a refresher of this technology is in order.  read more »

Last month in Part I of this two part series we left off by explaining how Command and Control is of utmost importance throughout the first alert process. It is during this critical time immediately following a catastrophic event that rapid and often irreversible decisions are made.
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Most sizable organizations have some type of Business Resumption Plan in place designed to respond to a disaster in an equipment room or other facility. A disaster, for purposes of this article, is loosely defined as an incident which damages the facility, equipment, or data, which supports a “mission  read more »