The Benefits of Stressing Out: Why You Should Stress Test Your Recovery Plans
In everyday life, stress is usually regarded in a negative light, but in business continuity management, stress testing your recovery plans can play a very positive role in improving an organization’s resilience. […]
Plan B: As the Recovery Plan Fades, What Will Take Its Place?
The recovery plan has been the cornerstone of business continuity management (BCM) from the beginning, but its relevance is on the wane. I’ve been thinking a lot about what should take its […]
Taking Care of Business: How to Write a Business Recovery Plan
Last time, we looked at how to write recovery plans to protect your organization’s computer systems and applications. In today’s post we’re going to lay out how to write plans to recover […]
The Science and Art of Writing an IT/DR Recovery Plan
There are two main aspects to writing a disaster recovery plan: The science of knowing what to include and the art of writing the content. Today’s blog takes a look at both […]
The Best Policy: The Core Element of a Good BCM Program Is Honesty
You can’t have a good business continuity management or BCM program without the core elements of BIAs, TRAs, recovery plans, and exercises, but it’s possible that the most important element of all […]
Disaster Recovery vs. Business Recovery – Business Continuity 101
A common point of confusion for new BCM practitioners is the difference between business continuity and disaster recovery. Though people often think these are synonyms, the distinction is that business continuity relates […]
The Three Phases of Disaster Recovery
When disaster strikes, you want to get back to normal as quickly as possible. It’s important to go through these three phases of disaster recovery. What are the three phases of disaster recovery? […]
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. […]