Three recent pieces of research have suggested firms should do more to improve their
business continuity and
disaster recovery procedures, an article has revealed.
According to Continuity Central, a recent survey by Vanson Bourne quizzed 200 enterprises and found while 81 per cent have developed a business continuity plan, 50 per cent have only partially tested them and 18 per cent have carried out no tests at all.
In addition, PricewaterhouseCoopers research uncovered almost half of firms' disaster recovery plans have not been tested in the past year, while the Chartered Management Institute’s 2008 business continuity survey suggested 33 per cent of companies have no exercises to test their plan.
Speaking to the news provider about the research, Neil O'Connor, principal consultant with Activity, highlighted the importance of testing business continuity plans.
"Exercising business continuity plans is a cost-effective way to ensure that plans will work in reality - after all you don't want to be doing the first test of your plans in a real crisis," he commented.
A recent article on ProPortal.com suggested companies make
data storage and backups a key component of their business continuity plans to ensure records and other information survive any event which affects the firm.
