Imagine an older Marlon Brando lounging languidly atop your server racks, slicing an apple and waxing poetically about the tyranny of data, while your IT manager, buried up to his chin in untested security procedures and antiquated protocols, an RJ-45 crimper clinched in his teeth, struggles to eliminate the threat of man’s heart of darkness. You can almost hear the whispered prognosis: The Horror, The Horror.
As menacing as human breaches are in this interconnected digital world of ours, we prepare by anticipating the threats and developing response strategies that keep network penetration from becoming the end times. And ICS can help with that. But wait, there’s more.
Hacking Mother Nature
We are also connected to the natural world, a global force that produces near-apocalyptic destruction annually, despite the computer models of the Weather Channel and the drama of Jim Cantori. If you live along the Gulf Coast, you’ve no doubt witnessed and even participated in the intricate ballet of hurricane season. The music begins low as the lights come up on a tropical depression somewhere in the Carribean, building momentum and making a name for itself off the Florida Keys, and rising to a crescendo as it slams into the condos and casinos of coastal residents and businesses who lose the bet again and again.
Noah by the Numbers
The 1914 season had the lowest hurricane activity on record with only one tropical cyclone. 2005 was the most active, including Katrina. The intervening years, while not predictable, give evidence to the inevitability of winds and water that only Noah could appreciate. Katrina’s total devastation included property damage estimated at $81 billion. Even more recently, Hurricane Sandy bore witness to the vulnerability of the entire Eastern Seaboard. In New Jersey alone, nearly 19,000 small businesses sustained damage of $250,000 or more with total business losses estimated at $8.3 billion.* Disaster Recovery Planning is the Ark that saves all your data, two by two.
Gigabytes and Plywood
Protecting your data and systems infrastructure from the unpredictable wrath of the elements requires more than 72 hours notice and plywood screwed to the windows. ICS utilizes time-tested methods based on the standards established by the Disaster Recovery Institute International. To these industry standard best practices we add our own processes to customize a plan that includes backup and recovery, alternate facilities, vendor alignment, knowledge transfer, staff training, and recovery plan testing. Your disaster recovery becomes organized simplicity in the face of utter chaos, a stake in the heart of the data apocalypse.
Disaster Recovery Planning allows an organization to establish steps to continue operations at planned levels of service, despite events or interruptions. Talk with one of our Disaster Recovery Plan Professionals today. Even if you have a plan in place, ICS can test and assess your existing strategy, just to make sure your organization doesn’t get screwed, like the plywood.
