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Contingency planning has been a concept in technology for many decades and is a more prevalent sector of information technology. Over time, procedures have changed, but the object remains: “Always have a plan.” With the drastic and rapid changes in technology, companies have no choice but to have plans in case of major incidents such as natural disasters, blackouts, and certain cyberattacks. In exploring contingency planning as a whole, this paper discusses different topics such as common successful methodologies and new discoveries.
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Burton, K., Cuffee, N., Neclos, D., Olatunbosun, S., Ajani, T. (2021). Contingency Planning: Prioritizing Your Resources. In: Arabnia, H.R., Deligiannidis, L., Tinetti, F.G., Tran, QN. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering, Education, and e-Learning. Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70873-3_67
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