Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Disaster Recovery Tip #8

Don't be Afraid to Fail.

It's a common misconception that your continuity plan can fail a test exercise, when in reality the only failed test is the one you don't perform. A test exercise is a great way to validate the strengths and expose the weaknesses of your plan while providing valuable practice for employees to prepare for a real recovery. Remind your management team early and often that a test exercise is meant to find "failures" now, so they become "successes" during a recovery.

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