Business as usual.
The elements, employees and terrorists. They all pose an unknown risk. It only takes a couple of days of freak weather and a company can find itself all at sea. Jonathan Swift looks at how disaster recovery and business continuity firms help.
When disaster strikes it can cause mass disruption to a company'soperation. Of the 350 companies affected by the World Trade Centre blast,
180 have ceased trading.
In order to counter this threat
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