BEYOND NATURAL DISASTERS: THE INFORMATION SECURITY RISK

Natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes are only part of the risk to your business continuing to operate. There are also information security risks.
These days, threats can come from anywhere. Businesses with event the most well-thought out business continuity plans must monitor and re-evaluate their plans every 12-24 months. It takes a combination of current backups, disaster recovery plans, and high-availability tools to maximize uptime and ensure your business can address emerging threats.

Preparing for an inevitable interruption will help your business make more money. How? By ensuring plans are developed, tested, and team members are trained on how to operate when an interruption occurs will enable your business to consistently serve more clients over, above and beyond your competition. Additionally, with the average cost of an outage exceeding $6.65 million per typical organization, you could spend just a fraction of those funds (1) preparing your organization (2) and advertising to your customers your preparedness over your competition.

ICS has the industry experience and knowledge to develop, implement, and validate business continuity programs. In fact, ICS has assisted in developing and implementing business continuity programs in a variety of organizations in the private and public sectors, including projects with Federal agencies, and state and local governments.

PREPARATION MEANS BEING READY FOR THE UNTHINKABLE

Power failures, natural disasters, IT system crashes and supply chain problems are situations that you never want to encounter; but, as an organizational leader, you know you must be prepared for them.

An effective business continuity plan should ensure the safety of your team and visitors, as well as allow business operations to continue under any type of adverse conditions. A well-developed plan, built upon business goals, will meet these objectives and will help keep your organization up and running through interruptions of any kind.

ICS prepares organizations – large and small – with resilience strategies, established recovery objectives, business continuity and crisis management plans, so when the unexpected happens, you’ll be ready.

HOW WOULD YOU DEFINE THIS ITEM?

(a) a SmartPhone
(b) a mass storage device
(c) owned by 72% of your employees & partners
(d) one of 2010’s top cyber-security risks to your organization
(e) all of the above

The answer is (e) all of the above.

Learn the top cyber-security threats to your organization and how ICS can help you proactively protect your information, your employees and your company.

2010 CYBER-SECURITY TRENDS

Download the free ICS Impact Report: 2009-2010 Cyber-Security Trends & Security-Focused Solutions.

ICS Consultants are trained in the ten essential knowledge areas defined by the Disaster Recovery Institute:

1. Program Initiation and Management
2. Risk Evaluation and Control
3. Business Impact Analysis
4. Business Continuity Strategies
5. Emergency Response and Operations
6. Business Continuity Plans
7. Awareness and Training Programs
8. Business Continuity Plan Exercise, Audit and Maintenance
9. Crisis Communications
10. Coordination with External Agencies