Information enters and leaves your organisation by various routes, these days probably the bulk through IT systems. But IT is not the only medium for information storage and movement and neither should information security be the sole responsibility of the IT department. An information availability (IA) plan, properly implemented at all levels of the organisation, is an important enhancement to information security systems and it makes good sense to put in place if you do not have one already.
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