Business continuity and
disaster recovery planning are now accepted as basic requirement for
every business and organization. It is widely accepted that a detailed
business continuity / disaster recovery plan should not only exist, but
should be up to date. It should reflect the actual on-going needs of the
business activity or function.
But how do you ensure that this is actually the case? If you have a
plan, do you know that it will all work? Do you ever audit it, and if
so, how?
Equally importantly, do you know what your service/resource dependencies
are and what their time criticalities are? What of your everyday
contingency practices - do they measure up to close scrutiny?