Evaluating DRaaS Providers
Learn to select from today’s wide range of DRaaS providers, including what questions to ask and how to be sure they fit into your overall recovery strategy. The use of various “cloud” […]
Lessons from 150 Years of Business Continuity Experience
Take a look at top lessons learned from our staff’s combined 150 years of business continuity experience. Use our knowledge to benefit your BCM plans. When I look at my children and […]
Cyber Security Planning
In today’s digital business climate, it’s critical to stay up to date with cyber security. In 2012, FEMA released a presentation “designed to increase understanding of cyber threat alerts, warning, and information […]
Enterprise Risk Management – When Was Your Last Security Incident?
In Risk Management, preparation and information are our best tools. One of my mantras is “Hope is not a strategy.” This mantra is particularly the case for security issues. Other than people, data […]
Common Business Continuity Disasters
We should always be performing risk analysis, even if it is ad hoc or a thought exercise. As the new year is now well underway, we have forgotten about our New Year’s […]
Resiliency Theater – You May Not Really Be Prepared for an Outage
We spend time preparing for major data center or facility outages. We perform a risk analysis and write plans; we put in technologies to keep the business running and perform various tests. […]
Disaster Recovery Strategy Execution, or Will It Really Work?
Do you know how to actually execute a recovery using your defined disaster recovery strategy, or will your team have to figure it out? We’ve discussed developing a disaster recovery strategy at length, but […]
Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja
We are living in a golden age in terms of the easy availability of high-quality information on how organizations can make themselves more resilient. In today’s post we’ll look at the top […]
Disaster Recovery Trends for 2017
As we begin a new year, many will review where they would like to improve or change. Fitness clubs will be full and we will try to eat better in January. And […]
Risk Limitation – Real World Examples
In recent blogs we have discussed various aspects of risk mitigation, including risk acceptance, risk avoidance, risk limitation, and risk transference. This week’s blog will focus primarily on the area of risk […]
Employee Readiness – Do Your Employees Know What To Do?
Your organization’s actual ability to respond to and recover from an event is directly related to employee readiness across the organization. It is important to note that too many times we train only […]