Disaster Recovery as a Service Comes of Age
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is no longer an unproven new idea with a lot of question marks attached. It is now all grown up and has a lot to offer almost all organizations that have [...]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Using Business Continuity Templates
Many organizations use templates to help them craft their business continuity plans. In our opinion, this is an excellent way of going about doing it. The “good” of using templates is significant [...]
By Richard Long
Posted How Your Business Continuity Plan Is Like Swiss Cheese
If your business continuity plan is like most of the plans we see, then it is highly likely that it bears more than a passing resemblance to Swiss cheese. We don’t mean that it would taste very [...]
Command Performance: Using the Incident Command System (ICS)
Sometimes there is a good reason to reinvent the wheel—for example, if you are in business and the current “wheel” is a proprietary product controlled by your competitor. However, sometimes the [...]
By Richard Long
Posted All About RTOs: What They Are and Why It’s Important To Get Them Right
The BIA is always a hot topic in business continuity. Everybody wants to know how to do a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). This interest is not misplaced, since the BIA is a critical part of an [...]
By Richard Long
In Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Analysis, Business Recovery Planning, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery Planning, Threat & Risk Assessment
Posted What is Business Continuity? – Business Continuity 101
If you’re new to disaster recovery or risk mitigation, you might be overwhelmed with business continuity terminology. To start, what is business continuity? If you’re not sure, [...]
By Richard Long
In Business Continuity Planning, Business Recovery Planning, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery Planning
Posted Disaster Situations You Don’t Think Will Happen – But They Do
Disaster situations are uncomfortable to think about. Even the most pessimistic among us have been guilty of avoiding the discussion by saying things like “that won’t happen to [...]
By Richard Long
Posted What is a DoS Attack?
The web offers a lot of opportunities, but with them, threats are sure to follow. The faster the technological advance, the more security gaps appear. Just in the last year, we’ve seen an [...]
By Richard Long
Posted The Three Phases of Disaster Recovery
In our Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning, we spend much of our time assessing, documenting and developing strategies for when an event may occur. This is all to prepare for or [...]
By Richard Long
In Business Continuity Planning, Business Recovery Planning, Crisis Management, Disaster Recovery Planning
Posted 4 Key Steps on the Roadmap to Resilience
Most people can sort out what tangibles they need for a solid BCM program, but the following critical steps can make or break an enterprise in times of crisis. Without functional crisis [...]
