Is your disaster recovery plan a disaster?(RISK MANAGEMENT)

Although such an apocalyptic event should not be the catalyst inspiring risk managers to dust off their disaster recovery plans, South Asia's recent tsunami underscores the need to ponder and enact such plans.

Because both coasts of the United States are susceptible to tsunamis, experts are scrambling to establish warning systems now, before government decision-makers lose a sense of urgency. In the aftermath of the South Asian flood that left 300,000 dead, U.S. officials will spend more than $37 million to establish new deep-sea warning systems that aim for almost com