Home based workers may not only help companies retain skilled workers while reducing the costs of “brick and mortar”, they also serve a crucial role in corporate disaster back up planning.
From SearchSecurity.com:
Paul Kurtz has spent years in the upper levels of government working on ways to protect America’s physical and digital infrastructure. He has served as special assistant to the president and as a member of the White House’s Homeland Security Council (HSC) and National Security Council (NSC). In this Q&A, the Cybersecurity Industry Alliance’s executive director explains why enterprises should consider telework as a way to survive a physical or online disaster, and why CEOs should be more worried about data manipulation.
Interviewer:You’ve advocated teleworking as a way to stay running in the face of a disaster. How would it help?
Kurtz: The attacks on the London transportation system this summer showed we need to think about our working environment. We need to plan for disasters of different types. It could be a natural disaster or the threat of a terrorist attack where you have an unwillingness of people to move if needed and you have a situation where people can’t get to work. But our IT infrastructure gives us the ability to be far more resilient and live and plan in an environment where we can reconstitute ourselves in an attack.
The idea is that in the event of a disaster, or even the threat of one, you don’t have to bring everything to a screeching halt. With telework, you can keep business flowing before, during and after an incident because you’re not shutting everything down during a threat to move people around. After the London bombings, there was the problem of people getting to their physical work locations with the underground shut down. The vulnerability is that people can’t get to their job. What if something happened and it became very difficult for people to get into Washington D.C.?
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