Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery in Energy/Utilities

Abstract

This chapter explores the real-life challenges and successes with business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) planning by a mid-sized U.S. electric and gas utility provider from 2005 to 2012. Concepts include the benefits of integrating BC/DR planning activities into IT Governance and daily IT operational processes to achieve measurable results, best practices for risk mitigation and recovery strategies, and best practices for BC/DR testing and continuous process improvement.

Keywords

Continuous process improvement; Chapter; Business continuity; Disaster recovery; Risk mitigation; Disaster recovery testing; Case study

In this chapter

• Introduction

• Real-life BC/DR challenges ...

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