While most businesses do a fairly good job of identifying the global threats to business operations, they often don't realize the smallest details can undermine seemingly robust business continuity or disaster recovery plans.

How can an organization make an accurate assessment of risk without knowing all of the obstacles that may stand in the way of a complete return to normal business operations? The best way to uncover the gremlins that may sabotage an organization's speedy and seamless post-incident recovery is to periodically conduct real world tests of each element of the plan and update it accordingly.

Take the case of two companies that had what appeared to be solid disaster recovery plans but failed to see the gremlins lurking.

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