Business continuity

There is nothing like a burglary to focus the mind on Business Continuity. Last night two men broke into our business block, through our outer door, broke the glass on our interior door, caused a little mayhem, and scarpered empty handed. Although not before they'd appeared our our cctv in starring roles and left blood on the walls which police forensics are examining as we speak. It could have been so different.

No cctv (it was a neighbouring business who had it) and no alarm call (it took us an hour to get there and the police didn't even put in an appearance until the morning, low priority crime they say). Frankly these guys could have parked a van outside, taken their time (at least 30 minutes from alarm sounding to anyone being there) and emptied out everything.

What would we have done... were all our backups up to date... could we deliver our key jobs in time... what about software licenses... pieces of infrastructure... the books... receipts... paperwork!

Time for a spot of disaster planning, and luckily not too late, frankly these boys did us a favour but i'd still like them behind bars...