Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning for IT Professionals, 2nd Edition

Introduction

When I wrote the first edition of this book, business continuity and disaster recovery were not topics most companies wanted to focus on. There was a lot of organizational resistance to spending the time and money necessary to develop a thorough and actionable plan. In the intervening years between the first edition and this updated second edition, more companies have come to understand that BC/DR planning is really a business requirement. That said, there still appears to be a huge opportunity for improvement across all businesses and industries.

Clearly, businesses that have been impacted by disasters, whether natural or man-made (terrorism, primarily), have gotten serious about BC/DR. Financial services firms, which are now fully ...