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Mutual Assistance Agreement (Definition)A Mutual Assistance Agreement or MAA is an arrangement between two or more companies such that each will assist the other in the event of a disaster, typically by sharing computing resources. Care should be taken in such agreements to ensure that the two companies are unlikely to be victims of the same disaster. e.g. they should not be too physically close to each other or lie on the same earthquake fault zone. Risky Thinking Newsletter Are you responsible for Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, or Risk Management in your organization? Then you may wish to receive a free subscription to the the monthly Risky Thinking Newsletter. It contains news, opinions and articles of interest to people working in these areas. View a sample issue, or click here to subscribe. Recent articles have included: Hurricane Katrina reminded us that there are major differences between
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