I am all in favor of being resilient.
Gemini Ai tells us:
Resilience is the ability to adapt to and recover from adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress.
One of my responsibilities as a vice president in IT for a financial institution was IT disaster recovery planning (DRP). Later, my portfolio grew and business disruption planning was added.
Initially, my Disaster Recovery Coordinator started writing separate plans for a fire, earthquake (we were in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles), flood, and loss of electrical supply.
But then we realized that whatever caused the loss of a data center, our response was essentially the same.
We also realized that the most important element of any DRP (or business recovery plan) was communications planning. That became our top priority and it was completed without delay.
A DRP is all about resilience, but we needed more than procedures for response and recovery.
We needed to enhance our recovery resources, such as storing critical data where it would be readily accessible in the event of a disaster, making sure we had somewhere to restore and run our systems, and ensuring we would have the people and other resources such as funding available for the recovery.
We developed a Disaster Prevention Plan with measures that would reduce the…
