13 Reasons Your Disaster Recovery Plan Failed
Search Disaster Recovery, Thursday, July 11th, 2024
Preventing failure is an important goal for DR teams, but disasters do not conform to how plans are designed. Familiarity with the causes of failure can help bolster a DR plan.
IT teams that implement a technology disaster recovery plan hope they never have to use it. However, never running a disaster recovery plan through a crisis can mean an untested strategy and the risk of the DR plan failing. No organization wants to face a disruption, but IT teams must not be caught by surprise if one does occur.
The unpredictable nature of threats like ransomware and natural disasters means they can strike at any moment, even if an organization hasn't dealt with them before. If a major disruption to IT infrastructure resources never occurs, the organization might not know for certain that its plan will work.