Denial is not a strategy for keeping your operation running. Let alone recovering from an emergency. If you don't yet have compliant and up to date Emergency Action, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Crisis Communications Plans, let Hurricane Irene be your wake-up call.

 During the past few years, my Security 500 research has identified the move of business resilience under the security umbrella in many organizations. Business resilience is defined as business continuity, emergency management and disaster recovery.  

Small and mid-sized businesses still haven’t recognized the tremendous impact a disaster can have on their businesses. Despite warnings, it seems like many still think it can’t happen to them, says a study by Semantec Corp.