Disaster Preparedness

Hope is a great quality for a baseball team in a pennant race to have, but it is not very good as a business continuity strategy. This is why it is critical that organizations are conducting [...]

The year 2018 continues to see big changes in the practice of IT/Disaster Recovery, but the core concepts for achieving an effective solution for IT and disaster recovery in 2018 remain the same [...]

We talk a lot about the need to mitigate the operational risks of a business disruption: what if your organization loses access to a key facility or suffers a ransomware attack or experiences the [...]

Everyone knows that natural disasters aren’t spread evenly across the United States, rather they occur in the same places year after year. This fact was given striking visualization in a recent [...]

It’s the rare workplace disaster that is dramatic enough to burst into the news. Most business emergencies are managed privately, with the outside world unaware that anything was ever wrong. This [...]

Here’s something for your to-do list, if you’re not doing it already: The next time your organization holds cyber exercises, make sure you include third-party experts, bringing them in to [...]

Aligning ITIL processes to your DR plan leads to more efficient and effective use of IT infrastructure. Inadequate planning is a risk to the business, and is often overlooked until it is too late [...]

In our experience consulting with universities, high schools, or elementary schools on Emergency Management preparedness, we have found a number of issues that come up on a regular basis. It does [...]

Do you have plans in place for use when traditional communication methods are limited? Here’s why you should create and implement backup communications systems.  In our blogs over the past [...]

With the two recent hurricanes that have devastated the Gulf states area, especially Texas and Florida, at MHA we add our thoughts and prayers to those who are displaced and experiencing loss as [...]