Your BCDR Plan is incomplete without IEMI consideration.

To make your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plans more complete, protection from IEMI needs to be included. While a significant portion of a comprehensive Business Continuity plan is to keep an organization “running” through disruptions such as illness, departure of key staffers, and other business challenges; IEMI event protection is similar to natural calamities like fire and flood: which affects supply chain, manufacturing and control systems, corporate data integrity, building security, and public safety.

RF weapons create disruption and damage and can cause malfunctions that can lead to catastrophic system failures. IEMI signals affect equipment in a way that compromises or evades existing protective measures provided by manufacturers including:

• Firewalls
• Virus Protection
• Lightning Protection
• Transient Voltage Surge Protection
• Traditional EMC Protection
• SCADA/PLC Control Logic and Safe Shutdown

The same financial justification used to support your existing BCDR preparedness should used for IEMI protection; as it is an additional element to the existing BCDR plan.