5 disaster recovery steps for advisers after Sandy

If your business is in an area subject to specific weather patterns, is there another location you can move to? Does your building or area have a history of power outages? If another office in your building were to have an extreme issue such as a flood or fire, would that interrupt your business? What could result from a process of system failure if your computers are compromised?

What functions are critical to your day-to-day operations? The answer, most likely, is trading, customer service and other operational tasks. If entire trading networks, such as the U.S. stock exchanges, are closed, your clients would be on a more level playing field. Can employees handle some operations from home, presuming their homes are not affected? Can work be done by another employee if one is missing for a day or a week?