Prepare for the worst, plan for the best: disaster preparedness and recovery for small businesses

This book will show small and mid-sized businesses how to protect themselves against disasters. By following the guidance that this book offers, readers will be able to alleviate their risks and recover quickly when disasters do strike. The new edition will contain new material about disaster relief programs and the immediate financial payoff to contingency planning. It will also have new information on Redundant Arrays of Independent Disk (RAID) hardware backups, calling trees and the Intranet, power outages and suppliers, as well as wireless networks. It will have a new section about how to set up your insurance to expedite claims payment should you experience a disaster and a new section about assisting employees and their families. The contents are as follows: (1) Introduction, (2) Preparation, (3) Business Mail Procedures, (4) Internal Communication, (5) IT Infrastructure, (6) Data Backups, (7) Equipment Failures, (8) Network Reliability, (9) Equipment Quality, (10) Software Installation, (11)Third Party Failures, (12) Phone Service, (13) Electrical Power, (14) Internet Access, (15) Environmental Hazards, (16) Remote Operation: Stage I, (17)System Security, (18) Fires and Other Disasters, (19) Fire Protection, (20) RemoteOperation: Stage II, (21) Terrorism & Sabotage, (22) Hacker Attacks, (23) Financial Liquidity, (24) Role of Insurance, (25) Business Interruption Insurance, (26) Selecting an Insurer, (27) Risk Management, (28) Other Measures, (29) Setting up your claim to be paid, (30) Response, (31) Mitigating Insured Losses, (32) Securing Insurance for a Property Loss, (33) Identifying Implicated Policies, (34) Reconstructing Insurance Policies, (35) Issues Relating to Employee Displacement, (36) Issues relating to families and homes, (37) Communicatingwith Stakeholders, (38) Recovery, (39) Sample IT Solutions, (40) Appendix: Basic Safety Practices, (41) Other Resources, (42) Glossary.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-55617-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 05/08/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés