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Disaster Planning Takes a High Tech Twist in Youngstown Seminar

A new initiative in Mahoning County helps businesses prepare for a cyber attack and other natural or man-made disasters.
A new initiative in Mahoning County helps businesses prepare for a cyber attack and other natural or man-made disasters.
A new initiative in Mahoning County helps businesses prepare for a cyber attack and other natural or man-made disasters.
A new initiative in Mahoning County helps businesses prepare for a cyber attack and other natural or man-made disasters.

When a business is hit by disaster—whether natural, like a storm, or man-made, like a cyber-attack—its survival can depend on how well it retrieves lost financial data and restores vital communications. And, there is now a program in the Youngstown area to help plan for such recovery. 

Melissa Ames, VP of Services -- Columbiana, Mahoning, and Trumbull Counties Better Business Bureau
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Melissa Ames, VP of Services -- Columbiana, Mahoning, and Trumbull Counties Better Business Bureau

The Better Business Bureau of Mahoning Valley,  and a Warren-based tech support company called Micro-Doctor are teaming up for a seminar on how to protect and restore vital business information.

Melissa Ames is the BBB’s Vice President of Services. She says the more that technology is integrated into business, the greater to the need to plan against what could go wrong.

“We are so reliant upon our devices," says Ames, "and this is planning for a disaster within our office."

"Maybe somebody accidently downloaded a virus to their work computer and it takes out your entire network.  You have to be aware of what can happen; and plan for when something like this does happen.”

The seminar is April 12th in Youngstown and more information is available on the Mahoning Valley Better Business Bureaus website

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Tim Rudell
Tim Rudell has worked in broadcasting and news since his student days at Kent State in the late 1960s and early 1970s (when he earned extra money as a stringer for UPI). He began full time in radio news in 1972 in his home town of Canton, OH.