Business Recovery Planning

There is a big difference between casually working from home from time to time, and working at home because a disaster has knocked out your regular workplace. In today’s blog, we’ll explain the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]