Compliance Perspectives

By Adam Turteltaub When planning for disasters, organizations are typically focused on things like call trees, backup data servers, and alternative work locations. In the crush to survive the immediate threat it’s easy to forget about compliance, and even during disaster planning, compliance may come last. That’s a dangerous mistake, explains Laura Fey, Principal, Fey, LLC; Tom Leatherbee, Manager, Recovery Division, Hagerty Consulting; and Jillian Cusack, AVP, Privacy Officer, American Fidelity. Just because normal business operations are interrupted doesn’t mean compliance obligations are also on pause. Ensuring compliance plays a role in disaster planning is more important than ever. Natural disasters, ransomware attacks, a pandemic and other threats seem to be more frequent and can turn into situations that last days, weeks, months or even years. When they do, not only do existing compliance considerations continue but new ones can arise ranging from OSHA to employee obligations – you still have to pay