Will corporate America learn any lessons from the devastation left in Hurricane Katrina's wake? A report from AT&T and the International Association of Emergency Managers
suggests not. "Disaster Planning in the Private Sector: A Look at the State of Business Continuity in the U.S.," polled 1,200 businesses from January and August 2005.
Here are some highlights from the report:
- Fewer than half of the companies that have had business interrupted by a disaster have updated their business-continuity plans in the past six months.
- Almost two-thirds of companies that suffered a disaster experienced lost business.
- Nearly one-third of companies have not implemented basic security technology, such as firewalls or intrusion detection of password authentication.
(The complete report can be accessed at http://www.att.com/presskit/business_continuity.)