Forget Disaster Recovery, Let’s Talk Disaster Avoidance

“What’s your disaster recovery plan?”

It’s a question I’ve been getting from customers quite a bit lately. And it caught me off guard the first time I heard it. Typically, inquiries on disaster recovery come from someone on an audit team who has the daunting task of creating a disaster recovery and business continuity plan across the entire company. To assemble such plans, they must robotically evaluate each of the company’s business partners and service providers. During these conversations, I’ve glimpsed the perfect disaster recovery service and wanted to share a few thoughts.

My first disaster recovery conversation went something like this:

“Hi, David, I am from such-and-such company. I work on the IT audit team. I am currently assembling and auditing the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity plan. Can you walk me through Okta’s DR and BC plans so I can include them with ours?”

“Ummmm…. well… uhhh, “ I started very succinctly. “The thing is, we are your DR and BCP for the