The new decade is here and if you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to prepare your IT disaster recovery plan for your business. In 2019, ransomware attacks alone cost the U.S over $7.5 billion. With technology still rapidly evolving, these numbers will only rise this year. Here are five tips for preparing your 2020 disaster recovery plan!

Assess Risks & Threats

The first step to preparing a successful disaster recovery plan is to assess the top risks of your business. If your business mainly operates with computers, then your business is always at risk for malware attacks.

If your employees utilize email as their main form of communication, phishing emails may pose the highest threat to your network. You can also hire an ethical hacker to go into your system and find vulnerabilities. Once you’ve assessed the problem, you can come up with effective solutions moving forward.

Consider All Networks

Majority of businesses utilize multiple different networks for conducting their business operations. Be sure to take each individual network into consideration when developing a disaster recovery plan.

What would be the impact on your business if each network was disrupted? Hiring a professional IT solutions specialist can help you to better analyze each of your business networks.

Back-Up Data

Even some of the best IT solutions can fall victim to the right cybercriminal. For this reason, it’s best to back up all of your network data so that it can be recovered in case of a security breach.

Many companies without disaster recovery plans would not survive a security breach, so it’s better to be prepared. In this decade, the cloud is one of the most popular back-up options. Data is stored on the internet so that it’s accessible from any device.

Assign Roles

A good plan is just that without proper execution. To ensure that your plan runs smoothly if the time comes, put together an IT disaster recovery team within the company.

Assign specific roles and responsibilities to each employee to reduce panic and confusion in the event that a security breach happens. This team of employees will provide instruction to the rest of the team and minimize the amount of losses and downtime due to an IT disaster.

Document Every Step

Though it may seem obvious, writing down each and every step of your disaster recovery plan is extremely important. You want to make sure everything is written clearly and precisely so that there’s no confusion in the event of an IT disaster.

It’s a good idea to regularly test out your disaster recovery plan to ensure that it doesn’t just look good on paper. This will allow you to make improvements and adjustments as needed. Write down the testing process as well so that you can see where changes need to be made.

Contact Thinline Technologies Today for Your IT Solutions!

Thinline Technologies makes it our business to provide the most effective IT solutions for clients of all sizes! We offer full service IT solutions that allow you to focus on other aspects of your business needs while we focus on the technology that runs it.

At Thinline technologies, we take the time to understand your specific IT needs, train your staff on new technologies, and manage problems before they can even impact your business. For more information, visit our website https://www.thinlinetech.com or give us a call at (410)-453-9300.