You Still Need to Drill: IT/DR Testing Is as Important as Ever
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many organizations to focus on operations and suspend their IT/Disaster Recovery testing programs. In today’s post, we’ll explain why it’s important to keep up with your IT/DR […]
8 Dos and 1 Don’t for Conducting Disaster Recovery Tests
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 […]
Disaster Recovery Strategy Execution, or Will It Really Work?
Do you know how to actually execute a recovery using your defined disaster recovery strategy, or will your team have to figure it out? We’ve discussed developing a disaster recovery strategy at length, but […]
Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery Testing and Training Guidelines
Business continuity or disaster recovery testing and training are critical and too often mishandled parts of many business continuity programs. Keep your program strong with our guidelines on BC/DR training and testing. […]
Types of Recovery Plan Tests
Exercise and testing can consist of talking through recovery actions or physically recovering things. Testing can be discussion-based or operations-based. There are several different kinds of testing each categorized by their complexity […]
10 Steps to Assess Your Disaster Recovery Plan
After you have created an effective recovery strategy, the ability to execute that strategy is of primary importance. Along with training and testing, the documentation and procedures required to perform a practical […]
The “EX” Factor in Your BCP Program
What is your BCP program’s “EX” factor? “EX” is short for EXECUTION and it is the key differentiator in all recovery programs. If your program does not have a high “EX” factor, […]
Facilitating a Successful Disaster Recovery Exercise
Facilitating a successful disaster recovery exercise is like putting together a watch. There are many pieces but once put together properly, work in synch. Achieving exercise success requires a repeatable process that can be executed time and […]
