Hope is a great quality for a baseball team in a pennant race to have, but it is not very good as a business continuity strategy. This is why it is critical that organizations are conducting regular disaster recovery tests of their information technology systems, otherwise known as DR tests, or IT/DR tests.

These tests can inform you whether you are actually capable of recovering your systems in the event of a disruption and what issues are likely to come up while you are trying to do so. They reveal capability and identify gaps.

In some industries, IT/DR tests might not simply be a good idea; they might be required. This is often the case, for example, with companies that must satisfy FDA requirements or meet SOX reporting mandates.

For all of these reasons, it’s well worth it for your team to learn how to conduct such tests properly and ensure they are well-designed and meet their goals. To help you do this, today we are sharing our “8 Dos and 1 Don’t for Conducting IT/DR Exercises.”

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https://www.mha-it.com/2018/08/conducting-disaster-recovery-tests/