The process, policies and procedures of restoring
operations that are critical to resuming business, also known as business continuity. It encompasses the following:
- Regaining access to critical data
- records, hardware, software, networks, etc.
- Restoring communications
- incoming/outgoing, phone, fax, internet, etc.
- Restoring work spaces and other business operations
- financial and administrative software systems
The range of disaster impact can vary greatly, depending on the type of event:
- Limited
hardware and equipment
(theft, accidental damages, failures, viruses, malicious access)
- Localized
effects only buildings in your
district
or municipality (networks, fires, floods, lightening strikes, local
power outages)
- Regional
effects all districts and municipalities in the area
(hurricanes, blackouts, major floods, snow events, tornadoes)
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