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What should be included in a business continuity plan?
EasylifeIT Director Learning Centre Strategy and policy

What Should Be Included in a Business Continuity Plan?

What should be included in a business continuity plan?

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Unpalatable, but predictable

You’ll be glad to know this isn’t another Coronavirus article. Businesses have been faced with severe threats to their survival long before anyone had heard of COVID-19 – floods, fires and other localised disruptions are not new. Pandemics do remind us however that unpalatable events can and will happen.

COVID-19 is unusual in recent history because its consequences for business have been so severe and so widely felt. And it brings into sharp focus the relationship between likelihood and impact. Once in a lifetime events are, by definition, very rare. But when they do strike the pain can be relatively high. We may be less able, or perhaps less willing (sometimes with justifiable good reason), to prepare. And – yes – let’s be honest – that justification may be that reducing the risk is prohibitively expensive and we decide therefore that it is a risk worth taking.

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IT policies – A cure for insomnia?

IT policies – A cure for insomnia?

Let’s face it – IT policies are not the most exciting topic. Because of that reality, there are two common (but similarly futile) approaches:

  • Approach 1 – don’t bother.
  • Approach 2 – Find a generic IT policy on the internet. Put a copy in the staff handbook. Hope the staff will read it.

Does this sound familiar? Don’t worry – you are far from alone if so. However, it’s still worth taking a moment to think about trying to be better than average. The good news is that it isn’t difficult or costly to make a big step forward. And it’s worth doing to help protect your business, your customers and your staff from the threat of cyber crime.