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Planning Ahead and Assessing
Your Risk for Your New York
Small Business IT

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The more your New York based
small business relies on IT for its
different operations,

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the more important it is
to understand how disruption
could affect your business

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Knowing What Could Go Wrong

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• Focus on risks that could
realistically have an impact
on your business

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• Natural disasters such as storms,
floods and fires can affect many
locations

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• Think about lightning strikes and
electricity power spikes too

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• Hardware and software failures
may be less dramatic, but can be
just as deadly. Hard disk failures
account for the majority of serious
IT disasters in business today

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• Human error due to lack of
expertise or inattention

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• Cybercrime and terrorism

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Understand the Impact

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• The nature of the risk

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• The probability that it will occur

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• The impact on your business
if it does occur

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Planning for Outcomes,
Rather than Causes

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• No IT resources. Your computers
have ceased to work or you
cannot connect to them

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• No access to your office. Your
premises where you normally use
your IT have been damaged or it is
no longer possible to access them

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• No staff. Key colleagues or
employees are not available to
drive your IT

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• No supplies. A key provider is
unavailable to supply products or
services necessary for your IT to
function properly

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Making Your Plan

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• Include practical information
about what is to be done and by
whom for each major event

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• Put the detail in now – you won’t
have time to ‘figure it out’ when
the disaster happens

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• Define lines of communication
clearly and back-up decision
makers if senior management is
unable to communicate
instructions

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Asking an experienced third party
to review your plan with you can
also be a sound way of ensuring you
have covered all relevant aspects

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Have you assessed your risk for your
New York based small business IT?

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Do you have a plan in place?

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