Q3 – 2010 Update

September 26th,

With the Q4 Winter season fast approaching, there are some things business’s are doing to tie up their fiscal years end. Numerous critical files are being stored, some in paper form and others digitally. Much of it for Accounting purposes. Many of us like to leave the office around this time of year. Before you leave the office for the chalet, are you sure that you will have peace of mind on your “time-off”.
Is your company’s data secure? Were the proper safeguards put in place?

Taking a comprehensive assessment of your business’s continuity management is a great way to identify potential impacts that threaten your organizations ability to be resilient. To judge your “readiness to relax” consider yours business’s vitality and capability to enact an effective response that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders and brand. Doing this ensures you have taken the first step in business continuity management, Planning.

Planning for disaster is not something most of us ever want to think about. Yet we will worry about it constantly in the back of our minds. The eventuality of something going wrong is an accepted variable.

By planning for business continuity you are developing advanced arrangements and procedures that enable your organization to respond to an event in a rapid and calculated manner keeping critical elements of your business functioning.
Check back with us next month as we will be preparing a downloadable holiday checklist downloadable .pdf file available for personal use.