Step 1: Review available resources from Ready.gov and FEMA

Step 2: Use available industry research to understand plan requirements, i.e. Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA

Step 3: Develop a Business Continuity Policy Statement that gives an overview of what the expectations are in an emergency, i.e. major storm affecting power, means of communication, incident reporting.

Step 4: Create company level and departmental/unit level mini-plans to manage local risk and to address risks that impact other units

Step 5: Cross train employees to reduce single point of failure

Step 6: Create teams to develop the plan with representation from all units, senior management and security personnel.

Step 7: Do routine scenario based employee readiness and technology readiness exercises

Step 8: Provide emergency updates and meetings over the Internet, using online voice and video services

Step 9: Enable secure access to real-time and non-real-time

Step 10: Conduct emergency meetings online using Windows Live Meeting or Skype

Step 11: Audit your network. 

• Do you have what you need to operate? 
• Do all employees needing remote access to perform critical functions have the access and ability to use it?
• What changes need to be made?

Step 12: Test your Business Continuity Plan utilizing 3rd party testing.

Step 13: Continuously monitor events for proactive risk and continuity management.

Emergency Communications Tools

Provide information to your team during an emergency using Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite BPOS). Includes:

• Exchange email Online
• Office Communications Online
• Sharepoint intranet
• Windows Live Meeting

Business Continuity Checklist

How quickly your company can get back to business after a terrorist attack or tornado, fire or flood often depends on emergency planning done today. Start planning now to improve the likelihood that your company will survive and recover.

Business Continuity Template

Just as your business changes over time, so do your preparedness needs. When you hire new employees or when there are changes in how your company functions, you should update your plans and inform your people.

Online Backup, Data Backup, Remote Backup

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Emergency Prepardness Checklist

Your employees and co-workers are your business's most important and valuable asset. There are some procedures you can put in place before a disaster, but you should also learn about what people need to recover after a disaster.

Backup Plan

In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.

Choosing Storage

Time was, you could back up everything on your computer with floppy disks. Today, when one sound or graphics file could well be larger than a disk, it would be difficult to back up even your documents on floppies, let alone your applications.