Prepare your business for digital disaster

04.11.2012

You don't have to look hard to find tales of technological disaster. The infiltrated thousands of Middle Eastern PCs, where it could intercept online banking credentials. Apple iPhones were to spoofed SMS messages. all but demolished Western Digital's hard drive production facilities in Thailand.

Closer to home, writer when a hacker used a couple of phone calls to order a remote wipe of his MacBook Air. Honan says that he lost more than a year's worth of photos after the breach--photos that, of course, he hadn't backed up.

These incidents--and to some degree, anything that goes wrong with your tech universe--have one thing in common: With careful planning, the victims could have rendered the problems much easier to recover from.

Sure, enduring a flood that wipes out your production facility is worse than losing some stored baby pictures, but disaster planning is essential for individuals and businesses of all shapes and sizes. The only real variable is the complexity of the necessary planning. For a small businesses, it's essential to plan for disasters so that you won't be completely crushed if catastrophe does strike. Here's how to start.