Disaster Planning resources and information

This article describes why you need a disaster plan, how to create a disaster plan, and the difference between a disaster and a crisis.

The article Business Planning For A Bird Flu Epidemic guides you through the steps of planning for the risks to your business from a possible bird flu epidemic or a bird flu pandemic if the H5N1 virus spreads from humans to humans.

The article Business Planning For A Swine Flu Epidemic guides you through the steps of planning for the risks to your business from a possible swineflu epidemic or a swine flu pandemic from the H1N1 virus.

Unscientific survey of whether businesses are prepared for a possible H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic

About.com's Small Business Guide, Darrell Zahorsky, lists nine factors for owners to consider when deciding what direction to take small businesses after a disaster. These same considerations should influence the disaster planning of every company.

About.com's Guide to Small Business in Canada, Susan Ward, provides this excellent definition of "Business Continuity Planning" to help you understand what others are talking about.

About.com's Guide to Internet/Network Security, Tony Bradley, recommends this book, Security Planning and Disaster Recovery, to guide you in preparing your Information Technology sector for a disaster

The US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has prepared this step-by-step approach to emergency planning, response, and recovery for companies of all sizes.

Greig Fennell's slide show from CPM 2000 on Business Continuity Planning. Click the "slide show" link in the lower right, or step through the numbered slides down the left (the slides are there even if they don't have titles).

A first of a three-part series in the Disaster Recovery Journal that describes the planning process related to disaster recovery.

Disaster recovery involves a series of actions to be taken in the event of major unplanned outages to minimize their adverse effects. Networking Guide Bradley Mitchell tells you how.

Every small business has data that needs to be protected. If your only data backup is on a computer, and the hard disk fails or is damaged your business data is gone. Small Business Guide Susan Ward outline the Three Steps To A Successful Backup System.

Bullet-point list of things to consider when you formulate your disaster recovery and business continuation plan

Learn from the Plunge. What you need to learn from the Stock Market collapse to prepare your buisness to survive other kinds of disasters, from your About.com Guide