The growing threat of cyber attacks has moved IT disaster recovery planning up the agenda for many businesses, but why pay every year for something you are never likely to use?

Developing an IT disaster recovery plan, with step-by-step procedures for recovering disrupted systems will identify business-critical IT systems and networks. It will assess the required recovery time and establish the steps to restarting, reconfiguring and recovering them. 

Instead of outsourcing the entire responsibility for disaster recovery to external service providers, it’s possible for smaller businesses to plan and protect their business, but only pay if disaster strikes.

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