As the CDC (Centers for Disease Control)  points out, even if zombies don’t start popping up on every street corner, people (and businesses) who are prepared have a better chance at surviving regular, garden-variety disasters such as floods, earthquakes, power-outages and storms. 

So if you’ve decided that this is the year that you quit living in fear of what could happen to your business in the event of an outage or disaster, where do you start? The first order of business is to develop a business continuity or disaster recovery plan.