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Dust Off ' Or Whip Up ' Your Disaster Recovery Contracts and Security Procedures

BY Marie Flores
August 23, 2003

Events such as Sept. 11 and the war with Iraq have brought issues such as disaster recovery and IT security measures to the forefront of the business world.

Optimize Research surveyed 165 business technology professionals. The results showed that ' two-thirds consider[ed] business contingency planning to be extremely important to their company as a direct result of ' terrorist attacks,' technology and business writer John Eckhouse reported in the article 'What's Your Plan?' for Optimize Magazine.

Companies and individuals can protect themselves by taking steps to ensure that proper contingency measures and security procedures are in place should a disaster occur. First, a proper contingency plan is a two-step process. But a detailed contingency plan is only the first step. The second step is having a detailed written agreement defining terms of any disaster recovery agreement. Entities can also protect themselves from internal and external threats by having security procedures in place to protect IT infrastructures.

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