Whether you use a commerical hot site, a mobile recovery center, a mutual aid agreement or whether you do nothing at all, your recovery
in a disaster will ALWAYS start with communications. Indeed, the U.S. military has long acknowledged that Command, Control, Communications, Computers and intelligence are the keys to staying in control in a disaster. In cold war days,
if an Air Force satellite saw a heat bloom in Siberia, those responsible had 20 minutes to figure out whether it was a gas
well or missile launch. The information had to be 100% accurate because a false positive or negative was equally catastropic.
And just as no good battle plan stands the test of a war, no good recovery plan stands the test of a disaster. You simply cannot
plan for everything that can happen. If fate throws your organization a curve ball, you must be able to react instantly.
For
example, what if you spend all of your time planning for a tornado, only to find a disgruntled employee in your computer room
- with a permanent magnet? What about a hostage situation, terroristic threat, suicide, or broken water pipe?
The only thing these and thousands of other potential disasters have in common is that they all depend at the onset on fast, reliable
and effective communications.
b4Ci Inc. has over 20 years of experience in helping organizations provide the "red
phone" to executive management. With the help of b4Ci your organization will not be blindsided, no matter what happens.
Our "4Ci" products and years of experience writing recovery plans assures a fast, accurate assessment of what happened,
allowing informed command decisions on how your organization should respond. Should you activate an expensive hot site?
Is everyone safe? What should we tell the media? Should employees come in or stay home? What was that BANG?
b4Ci provides
for your first and most basic need after disaster strikes: Your need to know with certainty what happened, NOW. That's
why we are, "The first thing you reach for in a Disaster" TM
Today, in an era of terrorism and mega-disasters, almost
everyone needs a "military" level of command, control, communications and intelligence in their Disaster Recovery Plans.
The principals of b4Ci stand ready to apply hundreds of years of collective experience for your organization, regardless of who your
company may already be using. Make the best use of your Disaster Recovery providers with our "Red Phone" and "first alert"
plans.
Yours truly,
President and CEO
