10 Steps to Better Business Continuity

10 Steps to Better Business Continuity

1. Identify and map out the types of risks you're likely to face.
2. Understand how a disruption will affect business operations and data use.
3. Develop a comprehensive plan for managing data—in both digital and paper formats.
4. Adopt storage and backup systems based on RTO and RPO requirements.
5. Ensure that a copy of all data resides offsite, and build redundant systems and communications networks to the extent possible.
   
6. Build security into all processes.
7. Check logs and backup data to ensure that systems are working correctly, and s tress-test the systems periodically.
8. Establish a plan for how staff will communicate—including a phone or text tree—if an incident takes place.
9. Review and update your disaster recovery and business continuity plans annually.
10. Identify an alternative site or a way for staff to work from home and share files and data if an office is damaged or unavailable.