"Two out of five enterprises that experience a disaster go out of business within five years. Business continuity plans and disaster recovery services ensure continuing viability."

- Gartner, Disaster Recovery Plans and Systems Are Essential,
by Roberta Witty, Donna Scott, 12 September 2001

A disaster is any unplanned interruption of business caused by an event beyond your control. Disasters may result from natural causes, terrorist activities, computer/internet crimes, computer viruses, power failures, network/telecommunication failures and by simple human error. Consequently, disasters will impede or eliminate normal business operations and cause many unnecessary complications.

While a disaster is by definition an event beyond one's control, disasters can be prevented and/or controlled. Therefore, a Disaster Recovery Plan is one of the most important processes an organization can implement. Without it, data loss and business operations become highly vulnerable and at serious risk. Primary Support helps clients be prepared to react to potential disastrous events and to minimize their ominous effects. Primary Support helps clients ensure the confidentiality, security and integrity of all data as well as organize and ensure business continuity strategies are effective.

Primary Support will work with your organization to identify the potential risks and threats that can lead to potential loss exposure. Once identified, Primary Support will construct a Disaster Recovery Plan to:

	Identify critical components (data)
	Evaluate business impact
	Implement business continuity strategies
	Develop and implement plan
	Train employees
	Test plan
	Reevaluate, update, test, revise plan (quarterly)