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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
Defining Risk Avoidance for a Modern Business Structure
Risk avoidance is the elimination of hazards, activities, and exposures that can negatively affect an organization’s assets. Whereas risk management aims to control the damages and financial consequences of threatening events, risk […]
Your Data Recovery Plans are (Probably) not Functional
If your data recovery plans are lengthy, detailed, and/or “bare metal” based, requiring comprehensive operating system, database and application recovery steps, then they are almost certainly out of date and not functional. […]
How Secure is your Facility?
How Secure is your Facility? Are you leaving your business vulnerable? What would happen in a disaster situation? These aren’t questions we like to think about, but they are neccesary. On a […]
What is the Objective of Risk Evaluation?
The objective of a risk evaluation is to determine the events that can adversely affect an organization and the damage that such events can cause. In this blog we will cover the […]