Starting today, Radian Compliance, is inaugerating a new blog feature: Continuity Corner. This feature will include hot topics in Business Continuity Planning as well as entries that will roughly follow the General Accepted Practices for Business Continuity Practictioners as drafted by Disaster Recovery Journal and Disaster Recovery Institute International. Today’s Topic:
What is a Disaster?
‘The Disaster Recovery Institute’ (DRI) states a disaster is a sudden, unplanned calamitous event that creates an inability on an organizations part to provide the critical business functions for some predetermined period of time which results in loss of data, personnel, business or time.
That is a pretty broad definition. The one thing that I have learned over the last 14 years in this business, is that it is the event that you do not anticipate that really happens. So my motto has become, "Expect the Unexpected." Some of my experiences have included, unhappy employees driving a truck through an office building, severing of all network communications for an extended period of time due to a train derailment 800 miles away.
What have been some of your experiences?