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Mega‐disasters: Is your IT battle‐ready
Author(s) -
Sergeant Anne M. A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of corporate accounting and finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1097-0053
pISSN - 1044-8136
DOI - 10.1002/jcaf.20700
Subject(s) - battle , mega , event (particle physics) , business , history , archaeology , physics , quantum mechanics , astronomy
In the wake of the Japanese tsunami, nuclear catastrophe, and myriad other disasters, who can not be concerned about “the Big One”? Mega‐disasters, once only the stuff of science fiction, now seem like a real threat. Is business prepared? Is your company really ready? A recent study suggests that companies are not even prepared for IT recovery from a small adverse event! So what steps must your company take now to become battle‐ready? The authors of this article offer some answers and they examine the entire issue. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.