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Prepared? Probably not.


L.A. may be the land of earthquakes and fires--and is likely a tempting terrorist target--but local businesses have grown complacent when it comes to planning for disasters.

Those are the sobering results of a study released last week by A&T Corp., which found 34 percent of 100 local information technology executives polled believed business continuity planning Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is an interdisciplinary peer mentoring methodology used to create and validate a practiced logistical plan for how an organization will recover and restore partially or completely interrupted critical function(s) within a predetermined  at their companies is not a priority.

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 the poll, 22 percent said other issues lake priority over disaster planning, while 19 percent said the probability of a major disaster impacting the company was too small to take further measures. Another 19 percent said they thought company disaster planning was sufficient.

It's been 13 years since the Northridge Earthquake, and terrorists haven't hit the city yet.

Not surprisingly, the local information technology executives appeared to take cyber-security more seriously, with 77 percent saying that guarding against computer viruses and hackers was part of their business continuity plan.
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Title Annotation:disaster planning still not on top priority for businesses
Author:Fine, Howard
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1U9CA
Date:Jun 4, 2007
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