Disasters come in all shapes and sizes and they definitely don’t discriminate. And while everyone knows the dangers that lurk around their firm’s precious data, it can be tough to dedicate a large portion of budget and resources to building an IT disaster recovery (IT-DR) plan. However, disasters don’t care about your IT talent, time or budget. With that in mind, here’s some examples of the five biggest IT-DR failures I’ve seen and how you can avoid them.

Bad Practice: Not Keeping the IT-DR Plan Up to Date