Top 10 Blogs on Disaster Recovery

Disaster recovery planning is a process that many companies, large and small, have not done. With a more integrated world, disaster recovery has to take into account more than just your office locations. The plan has to be cognizant of your partners, your vendors and your customers to be a truly effective plan. There are several key steps that should be take when starting your disaster recovery planning:

Step 1: Understand the business – what is most important, what has to be happen to stay in business, what enables revenue generation?

Step 2: Seek advice – if you are not experienced or experts in disaster recovery planning, see best practices and industry experience from an outside party.

Step 3: Document – it has to be written and distributed in order to work. Make sure you dedicate the right budget to this plan.

Step 4: Test- without testing the plan, you do not know if its actually practical and will operate the way you think it will.

Step 5: Update – make sure you update the documentation and run through tests yearly.

Some very good blogs on Disaster Recovery Planning include:

1. Disaster Recovery Journal

2. Disaster Preparedness Blog

3. Binomial Disaster Recovery Planning Blog

4. Vision Solutions Blog

5. Gartner Business Continuity Blog

6. Emergency Management Magazine Incident Blog

7. Oz Business Continuity Blog

8. Riskczar Blog