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Thank Goodness For Backup Planning!

We had some horrendous storms here in Iowa this week. Last night was a doozy! The lightning unrelenting, the winds horrific, and tornado spottings were peppered across the southern half of Iowa.

Today it is still raining and cloudy, but no violent weather. And also no Internet access for me! My rooftop wireless Internet dish in in-tact, but it turns out there was some damage to one of the wireless transmission towers somewhere in the area.

Thank goodness for my good old dial-up account! :)

I blogged about this a few months ago, but I'm just so happy to have my backup access I want to talk about it again! Since I am a company of one, being online and connected with my clients is vital to my business.

Is your business prepared for ISP outages? For electricity outages? For water outages?

Be prepared. Check your business continuity plans to make sure you can continue doing business even when your communications and utilities providers go dark.

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Posted by Rebecca Herold on August 24, 2007 12:12 PM |

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.