Each year, business continuity and disaster recovery professionals must plan for an increasing array of threats. As risks expand and diversify, professionals must incorporate more in-depth information into their disaster recovery plans to best prepare for the worst scenarios. While our recent business continuity survey found that cybersecurity is the top risk on most professionals’ minds, there is a more common and predictable threat: Severe weather.
Severe weather and disaster recovery plans
If you create a disaster recovery plan that doesn’t include the threat of severe weather, you’re risking financial, operational, and human resources. Some severe weather threats are constant. Lightning, for example, strikes the Earth’s surface nearly 100 times every second. These strikes occur all over the globe. While you might not have people in harm’s way during a thunderstorm, a well-placed lightning bolt can knock out power to your operations. While this doesn’t sound like a big deal, outages actually cost enterprises an astounding $700 billion per year. Also, did you know that an unplanned data center outage costs companies nearly $9,000 per minute? When you stack up the risks to business continuity, dollar for dollar, severe weather is a front-runner in disruption.
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Source: IT Strategy