Having donned my “Super Mom” cape a year ago with the birth of my beautiful daughter, here’s what I would tell a company if they wanted to strengthen their IT disaster recovery plan.

To feel comfortable with moving forward in-house, either you’ve got a robust IT disaster recovery plan today, or you are close enough to one that the risk of delay is acceptable.

Disaster recovery is getting them back to being healed and walking again,” says Pritchard, who is also the author of Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance, 4th Edition.

One downside of social networks for disaster recovery is that social networking “by its very nature has the ability to increase FUD—fear, uncertainty and doubt,” Silverstone says.

America’s approach to disaster recovery was designed to limit government assistance. Today many federal agencies have some role in recovery, but the Federal Emergency Management Agency is central.