Tactical Guidelines: A Business Continuity Plan

Story:

This short paper from Gartner has an excellent checklist of things to consider in the wake of last year's terrorist attacts. Regardless of how low your company may rate on any conceivable list of targets, the random nature of the attacts should prompt you to at least read through this list of best practices.

Analysis:

You may want to implement some of these processes for other reasons; the list also provides a good outline of a business recovery plan.

The report also mentions the increasingly interconnected nature of business; you might want to consider the security planning of your closest business partners as well.

They have an additional article on the role of the Internet in crises: see The Day The Internet Grew Up.

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