Crisis Management: Responding to a Disaster
August 31, 2021 – Article posted on HealthcareInfoSecurity
The impact of Hurricane Ida, including huge power outages, points to the importance of healthcare organizations and others having comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery plans in place for natural disasters as well as cyberattacks.
Careful planning is required for disasters, whether cyberattacks or natural disasters, business continuity experts say. In addition to testing plans, experts weighed in on communications, advanced planning, scams and HIPAA relief. Ron Brown, practice director of business resilience at GuidePoint Security, noted: “Man-made disasters can have as severe an impact as natural disasters. Therefore, a well-planned and executed business continuity and disaster recovery plan should effectively support an ‘all hazards’ approach to threats that may impact a business.”
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