{"id":4064,"date":"2020-09-23T14:37:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2022-07-05T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:09:06","slug":"the-16-most-essential-books-for-business-continuity-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/the-16-most-essential-books-for-business-continuity-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"The 16 Most Essential Books for Business Continuity Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><b><i>Solutions Review compiles the 16 essential books that business continuity directors or managers need to add to their reading lists.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Business continuity directors take on a massive responsibility. Knowing how to avoid downtime and simultaneously keep your business running smoothly is critical. Whether hardcover or digital, books are an excellent source for professionals looking to learn about a specific field of technology, and business continuity directors are no exception. We\u2019ve listed the top 16 books that business continuity directors should add to their reading lists. These books are intended for beginners and experts alike and are written by authors with proficiency and recognition in business continuity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be sure to also consult our <a href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/get-a-free-backup-and-disaster-recovery-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backup and Disaster Recovery Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/a> for information on the top backup and disaster recovery solution providers. It\u2019s the perfect resource if you don\u2019t want your organization to fall victim to any data protection mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note: Titles are listed in no particular order.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><div class=\"widget\"><div class=\"aside-card\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><a class=\"speedbump-1\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/get-a-free-backup-and-disaster-recovery-buyers-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1682\" title=\"Data Protection Vendor Map\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/files\/2021\/05\/21_BUDR_SB_BG_Blue_800.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2FTcusi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organizational Resilience<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2FTcusi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/511yoRJfewL._SX384_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a>By Kurt J. Engemann and Douglas M. Henderson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;As an instructor, you have seen business continuity and risk management grow exponentially, offering an exciting array of career possibilities to your students. They need the tools needed to begin their careers &#8212; and to be ready for industry changes and new career paths. You cannot afford to use limited and inflexible teaching materials that might close doors or limit their options. Written with your classroom in mind, Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organizational Resilience\u00a0is the flexible, modular textbook you have been seeking &#8212; combining business continuity and risk management.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3mL3upM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery: A Standards-Based Approach<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3mL3upM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41JLl7eLf+L._SX399_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>By Eugene Tucker<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;<i>Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery: A Standards-Based Approach<\/i> details the process for building organizational resiliency and managing Emergency and Business Continuity programs. With over 30 years of experience developing plans that have been tested by fire, floods, and earthquakes, Tucker shows readers how to avoid common traps and ensure a successful program, utilizing, detailed Business Impact Analysis (BIA) questions, continuity strategies and planning considerations for specific business functions.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/33S05Ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Business Continuity Management: Global Best Practices<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/33S05Ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51NZOBBgxNL._SX384_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a>By Andrew Hiles<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;At this critical point in your Business Continuity Management studies and research, you need one definitive, comprehensive professional textbook that will take you to the next step. In his 4th edition of\u00a0Business Continuity Management: Global Best Practices, Andrew Hiles gives you a wealth of real-world analysis and advice \u2013 based on international standards and grounded in best practices &#8212; a textbook for today, a reference for your entire career. With so much to learn in this changing profession, you don&#8217;t want to risk missing out on something you\u2019ll need later.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/33Rc7GF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning for IT Professionals<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/33Rc7GF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41ksJrU9lFL._SX399_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>By Susan Snedaker<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;The new 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Edition of\u00a0<i>Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for IT Professionals\u00a0<\/i>gives you the most up-to-date planning and risk management techniques for business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR). With distributed networks, increasing demands for confidentiality, integrity and availability of data, and the widespread risks to the security of personal, confidential and sensitive data, no organization can afford to ignore the need for disaster planning.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2G0hwTu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Disaster Recovery Handbook: A Step-By-Step Plan to Ensure Business Continuity and Protect Vital Operations, Facilities, and Assets<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2G0hwTu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51DK4SefoUL._SX345_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>By Michael Wallace and Lawrence Webber<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;With The Disaster Recovery Handbook by your side&#8211;including the third edition\u2019s updates of emerging risks, developments in IT networking, and information security&#8211;you can learn how to avoid a great deal of potential trouble for your organization. And when the unavoidable, unpredictable disasters occur, you will know that you have planned for every contingency and have ensured that your company is responsible, ready, and resilient.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/33TQPYN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/33TQPYN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51v76VbNAtL.jpg\" alt=\"Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach (A Rothstein Publishing Collection eBook) by [David Lindstedt, Mark Armour, Kristen Noakes-Fry]\" width=\"100\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>By David Lindstedt and Mark Armour<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;<i>Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach<\/i> uses the analogy of rebuilding a house. After the initial design, the first step is to identify and remove all the things not needed in the new house. Thus, the first chapter is \u201cDemolition\u201d \u2013 not to get rid of the entire BC enterprise, but to remove certain BC activities and products to provide the space to install something new. The stages continue through foundation, framework, and finishing. Finally, the last chapter is \u201cDwelling,\u201d permitting you a glimpse of what it might be like to live in this new home that has been created.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3mKbhUI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Disaster Recovery, Crisis Response, and Business Continuity: A Management Desk Reference<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3mKbhUI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51UPRy73zaL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>By Jamie Watters and Janet Watters<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;A practical how-to guide, this book explains exactly what you need to do to set up and run a successful business continuity program. Written by an experienced consultant with 25 years industry experience in disaster recovery and business continuity, it contains tools and techniques to make business continuity, crisis management, and IT service continuity much easier. If you need to prepare plans and test and maintain them, then this book is written for you.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3mNAJsj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Business Continuity Planning: A Step-By-Step with Planning Forms<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3mNAJsj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51EptGBWgaL._SX373_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>By Kenneth L. Fulmer<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;In more than thirty years as a business continuity practitioner, I have seen many small and medium-size businesses pay the penalty for lack of preparedness. Often, overwhelmed by the jargon employed by many practitioners and the mistaken concepts that business continuity is too costly, that it is only for the &#8220;big boys,&#8221; and that they do not have the resources or knowledge base, they choose to take the risk instead. For many, it is an unfortunate choice because much can be done with reasonable commitment to avoid business disruptions or mitigate the impact for those that are unavoidable\u2026 In this excellent primer, Mr. Fulmer sets out a simple, concise, and, most of all, logical roadmap both for developing the justification for a business continuity\/disaster recovery program as well as for developing and maintaining the resultant plan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2HgQSpZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Business Continuity Management System: A Complete Guide to Implementing ISO 22301<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2HgQSpZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41aYL9N8NmL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>By Wei Ning Zechariah Wong and Jianping Shi<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;<i>Business Continuity Management System<\/i> offers a complete guide to implementing a fit-for-purpose resilience capability in any organization. Structured in line with ISO 22301 and with a focus on performance improvement throughout, chapters cover developing, establishing and operating a BCMS initiative. Built upon the principles of the International Standard and current best practice, with a practical focus on theories and models, this book offers an objective, thorough solution for the practitioner.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3iXD0iw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>A Risk Management Approach to Business Continuity: Aligning Business Continuity with Corporate Governance<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3iXD0iw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51HdHg0H4ZL._SX373_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a>By Julia Graham and David Kaye<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;Julia Graham and David Kaye, two globally recognized risk management experts with experience in 50 countries, were among the first to recognize the interrelationship of Risk Management and Business Continuity and demonstrate how to integrate them with Corporate Governance enterprise-wide. They focus on all the factors that must be considered when developing a comprehensive Business Continuity Plan, especially for multi-location or multinational companies. Endorsed by The Business Continuity Institute, Institute for Risk Management, and Disaster Recovery Institute International, the book includes: Chapter objectives, summaries and bibliographies; charts, sample forms, checklists throughout.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Eqp4OU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mastering Business Continuity Management<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Eqp4OU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/414s4sC4YfL.jpg\" alt=\"Mastering Business Continuity Management by [Dr Michael C Redmond PhD]\" width=\"100\" height=\"159\" \/><\/a>By Dr. Michael C. Redmond PhD<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;This book takes a complicated subject and breaks it down into plain English, allowing for concepts, definitions, and so much more to be absorbed and understood. It offers a detailed understanding of what is crucial in Business Continuity Management, and the practical steps and stories help the reader implement each phase of planning including: Project Management, Gap Analysis, Risk Evaluation and Control, Business Impact Analysis, Strategic Planning, Emergency Response and Operations, Awareness and Training, Maintaining and Exercising Plans, Public Relations and Crisis Coordination, and more.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/32Y5S4J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Faster Disaster Recovery: The Business Owner&#8217;s Guide to Developing a Business Continuity Plan<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/32Y5S4J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51KznozQ2cL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>By Jennifer H. Elder and Samuel F. Elder<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;<i>Faster Disaster Recovery<\/i> provides a 10-step approach for business owners on creating a disaster recovery plan (from both natural and man-made events). Each chapter ends with thought-provoking questions that allow business owners to explore their particular situation&#8230;There\u2019s no time like the present to develop a business contingency plan\u2015and this book shows you how.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3mG58ZP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>25 Ways to Increase Your Business Resilience: A Simple Guide to Implementing Business Continuity and Contingency Planning for Businesses<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3mG58ZP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41M01P9HBJL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>By Keith Erwood, Eric Lofholm, and Jermaine Jackson<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;25 Ways To Increase Your Business Resilience. A simple Guide to Implementing Business Continuity and Contingency Planning for Business was written with small and midsized businesses in mind. It was written to provide them with the basic information and tools needed to develop a plan from start to finish. More than just a book providing the steps for each phase, you\u2019ll gain access to tools Keith uses when he consults directly with his clients. These include a Risk Assessment, Business Impact Analysis and Financial Impact Analysis tools. These form the basis for the information gathering you need to begin and form the foundation of your plans.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/302x2pg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/302x2pg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51-c+lq5PKL.jpg\" alt=\"Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>By Michael Blyth<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;Written by Michael Blyth &#8211; one of the world&#8217;s foremost consultants in the field of business contingency management &#8211; this audiobook provides cost-conscious executives with a structured, sustainable, and time-tested blueprint toward developing an individualized, strategic business-continuity program. This timely audiobook urges security managers, HR directors, program managers, and CEOs to manage nonfinancial crises to protect your company and its employees.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3cqbDv9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Testing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans: How to Plan and Execute Successful Tests<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3cqbDv9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41qi7VQ+XDL.jpg\" alt=\"Testing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans: How to Plan and Execute Successful Tests by [A. Alex Fullick]\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>By A. Alex Fullick<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;If Fullick&#8217;s concise recipe for business planning success could be distilled into a single sentence, it might read: Disaster is inevitable, change is constant, and the process of planning must be ongoing. If it isn&#8217;t already, this book should become the go-to handbook for front-line senior executives when they want to make sure their disaster and continuity plans will work when they\u2019re needed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/30jzbgr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41FrYuDceRL._SX384_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"129\" \/>By Jim Burtles<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;Are you are a Business Continuity Manager training for the job? Are you ready to keep the business up and running in the face of emergencies ranging from earthquakes to accidents to fires to computer crashes? In this second edition of Principles and Practice of Business Continuity: Tools and Techniques, Jim Burtles explains six main scenarios. He promises: If you and your organization are prepared to deal with these six generic risks, you will be able to recover from any business disaster.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><div class=\"hr hr\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><div class=\"widget\"><div class=\"aside-card\">\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><a class=\"speedbump-2\" href=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/data-protection-vendor-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2786 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/files\/2020\/02\/DP_VM_SB_800.jpg\" alt=\"Download link to Data Protection Vendor Map\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<pre>Solutions Review participates in affiliate programs. We may make a small commission from products purchased through this resource.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solutions Review compiles the 16 essential books that business continuity directors or managers need to add to their reading lists. Business continuity directors take on a massive responsibility. Knowing how to avoid downtime and simultaneously keep your business running smoothly is critical. 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