Disaster Recovery Journal Summer 2026

The Auditor Hiding in Plain Sight By LAWRENCE ROBERT B usiness continuity, crisis manage ment, disaster recovery, risk man agement, be warned. AI has the ability to make your job obsolete, or diminish the scope CM in ChatGPT. BC managers can ask questions like, “Build me a business continuity plan that incorporates disaster recovery and crisis management plans for a financial service company, specifically an insurance com pany that is operationally distributed in (insert countries), has XXX employees in each country, has their critical technology located in these states/countries, include country political risks and geographical and breath of programs of the past and how they are managed and implemented. I have written articles in the past on the coming of AI in the business continuity/ risk management space. Anyone with the “right questions” can build a BC, DR or

risk for each of the countries where opera tional and technology exists. Also include interdepartmental risk that could impact critical financial and operational risk.” This is a start of the interrogation that could guide further conversations with ChatGPT. Of course, ChatGPT will give you the plans, but will also ask questions you may not have thought of, bringing further enlightenment to your programs, such as, “What is the scope of testing you desire? Would you like to include testing scenarios for each plan? Would you like to include first responder interactions?” This can go on and on to the point where even a “lay person” can implement a program when posing the right questions. But there is a bright side to all of this for program managers. ChatGPT cannot go into your specific business model of actu ally knowing the employee’s role in each

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