As a result, the need to plan for potential disruption to technology services has increased exponentially. Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) emerged as the 'next big thing in corporate IT circles. With distributed networks, increasing demands for confidentiality, integrity and availability of data, and extensive risk to the security of personal data, confidential and sensitive information, organizations can not afford to ignore the importance of disaster planning. British Standards Institute is releasing a new standard for BCP this year, the Disaster Recovery Institute has developed a certification for DRP / BCP professionals in conjunction with the British Standards Institute, trade shows popping up on this topic and the news is filled with companies facing disasters from all sides. In this book you will find: * Complete coverage of the 3 categories of disaster: natural hazards, human caused hazards, and accidental / technical hazards. * Updated information on risks from cyber attacks, riots, protests, product destruction, bombs, explosions, and terrorism. * Extensive disaster planning and readiness checklists for IT infrastructure, enterprise applications, servers and desktops. * Clear guidance on the development of other work and computing sites and emergency facilities. * Actionable advice on emergency preparedness and response. * Up-to-date information on the legal implications of data loss after a security breach or disaster. Featured Case Study: Deanna Conn, Partner, Quarles & Brady, LLP, information security experts Debbie Earnest, Disaster Recovery and IT expert Patty Hoenig, Communications and PR expert * Complete coverage of the 3 categories of disaster: natural hazards, human caused hazards, and accidental and technical hazards. * Only published source of information on the new BCI standards and government requirements. * Up to date information on recovery from cyber attacks, riots, protests, product destruction, bombs, explosions, and terrorism.