Stratogrid Advisory

APRIL 12, 2020

Business Continuity Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 4 minutes Readers note: Please check our recently published high-level Business Continuity Planning guide. Managed Services Providers – MSPs, cloud service providers, etc.).

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Stratogrid Advisory

APRIL 12, 2020

Business Continuity Planning for Small and Medium-Sized Organizations. Readers note: Please check our recently published high-level Business Continuity Planning guide. . have unique challenges not generally understood by larger Business Continuity Advisory firms. Reading Time: 4 minutes.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 22, 2022

If you’re thinking about buying software for your business continuity roll out, this bulletin discusses what you have to be aware of and be ready to deal with before you make the plunge. My first learning point is not to use the software to roll out business continuity and believe that is a painless and easy way to do it.

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Erwood Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

How Business Continuity Provides Value to A Business. There are many ways in which Business Continuity can provide a business with tremendous value. The first and most obvious to many is that business continuity planning helps organizations obtain reduced premiums on insurance.

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Disaster Recovery Journal

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Business Continuity Policy Template. This template helps you define your business continuity program and associated objectives, including roles and responsibilities. IT Application Recovery Template. Crisis Management Plan Template. IT Infrastructure Recovery Template. Exercise Template.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 22, 2022

If you’re thinking about buying software for your business continuity roll out, this bulletin discusses what you have to be aware of and be ready to deal with before you make the plunge. My first learning point is not to use the software to roll out business continuity and believe that is a painless and easy way to do it.

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SRM

JUNE 30, 2020

Both a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan are critical elements of good security. One of the most common queries we receive from businesses looking to gain a better understanding of information security is, “What is the difference between a Disaster Recover plan and a Business Continuity plan.”

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Pure Storage

MAY 16, 2024

Both play critical roles in business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, so it’s important to understand what they are and why they’re different. From there, we’ll contextualize the role that each plays in the disaster recovery and business continuity process and highlight key differences between the two.

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Pure Storage

MAY 16, 2024

Both play critical roles in business continuity and disaster recovery efforts, so it’s important to understand what they are and why they’re different. From there, we’ll contextualize the role that each plays in the disaster recovery and business continuity process and highlight key differences between the two.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2016

This week Charlie talks about the links between business continuity and cyber security. Yesterday I went to an excellent seminar, organised by the Scottish Business Resilience Centre , called ‘Trading Security for Business’. Perhaps it is seen too ‘techy’ to have any synergies with business continuity.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2016

This week Charlie talks about the links between business continuity and cyber security. Yesterday I went to an excellent seminar, organised by the Scottish Business Resilience Centre , called ‘Trading Security for Business’. Perhaps it is seen too ‘techy’ to have any synergies with business continuity.

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Zerto

JANUARY 31, 2024

Despite basic out-of-the-box protection from SaaS vendors, data residing in SaaS applications is your responsibility, not the vendor’s. Moreover, monitoring data activities allows organizations to proactively detect and respond to security threats, such as unauthorized access or data breaches.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Importance of Backup for Microsoft Azure Active Directory In today’s digital landscape, organizations rely heavily on cloud-based services to safeguard critical data and ensure business continuity. A failure or data loss in Azure AD can severely impact business operations and productivity.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 6, 2023

Business continuity, performance, simplicity, risk management, and ESG weren’t part of the equation. A critical part of preparing for resilience in the wake of cyberattacks is building the capability to ensure business continuity. This is a complex process for financial institutions that have thousands of applications.

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Zerto

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The term data protection describes both the operational backup of data as well as business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR). Data availability Data availability ensures users have the data they need to conduct business even if the data is damaged or lost.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

We’ll see how the three dimensions we consider foundational to building business resilience —operational resilience ( part two ), IT resilience ( part three ), and cyber resilience ( part four )—relate to business continuity , a tangible part of business resilience in the immediate to short-term horizon.

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The Future of Business Continuity The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies In an era of rapid technological advancement, the landscape of business continuity is evolving, embracing innovations and emerging technologies to enhance resilience.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JULY 27, 2021

In this blog post, we share a reference architecture that uses a multi-Region active/passive strategy to implement a hot standby strategy for disaster recovery (DR). With the multi-Region active/passive strategy, your workloads operate in primary and secondary Regions with full capacity. This keeps RTO and RPO low.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These definitions are taken from our recent free ebook, Strong Language: The MHA Guide to Essential Business Continuity Terminology. There are two main types of risk transference: 1) buying insurance and 2) hiring a third-party vendor to perform an activity and passing on to them the risks associated with that activity.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 15, 2020

Why is so "darn" hard to engage IT Organization in Business Continuity efforts??? Last Updated on June 15, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 5 minutes In our previous articles , we outlined the reasons why the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program is essential to your organization. IT is (always) busy!

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 15, 2020

Why is so "darn" hard to engage IT Organization in Business Continuity efforts??? In our previous articles , we outlined the reasons why the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program is essential to your organization. It involves the collaboration of all business functions and all departments.

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Fusion Risk Management

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As more and more organizations explore how to rapidly deploy generative AI tools to help address challenges and meet strategic initiatives, Fusion ® is investing in purpose-built AI-powered capabilities to continue to transform how organizations manage and scale their business continuity, risk management , and operational resilience programs.

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Business Resilience Decoded

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Episode 165: Best Practices to Land Your Next Big Role | Resumes, Interview Tips, & More If you find yourself looking for a new role, you might be wondering how to set yourself apart in the application and interview process. It’s way more important that it’s legible and quick to scan. Pay attention to your digital footprint.

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Castellan

AUGUST 18, 2021

In business continuity and IT disaster recovery, the terms RTO and RPO are both often used in conversations about recovery requirements. This blog will define RTOs and RPOs with a closer look at how these terms are used in business continuity and IT disaster recovery programs. What is Recovery Point Objective (RPO)?

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. Doing this work is one of the most productive activities a BC professional can undertake. This cuts across all areas of BC activity. Having these items is not enough.

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Deep understanding of your operational gaps and exposures through risk assessment and business impact analysis (BIA)—this must consider third-party vendors and partners. Business continuity plans that address specific identified and assessed operational risks. Next: IT Resilience.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 13, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The BIA Is the Cornerstone As every business continuity (BC) professional knows, the BIA is the cornerstone of a sound BC program. accounts payable, payroll) and activities (running reports, uploading data).

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Pure Storage

JUNE 22, 2022

It’s easy to set up and usually the SAP application or SAP BASIS team does the configuration and controls the failovers. . It requires coordination between many different groups—both IT and business—and usually multi-day downtime of your production system to swap over and ensure business continuity.

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Online Computers

AUGUST 29, 2023

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Businesses do not have to go through the lengthy and costly process of developing all of their applications from scratch. They can simply use SaaS, which allows them to subscribe to the specific software applications they need. Examples of PaaS are Heroku and Azure AI.

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Fusion Risk Management

OCTOBER 26, 2023

R ecogniz ing that a main pain point for crisis managers is creating different communications – particularly because this process is usually cumbersome and complicated – being able to utilize Copilot to produce intelli gent summaries will enabl e our customers to focus more on critical response activities.

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Online Computers

JANUARY 8, 2023

If you own a small- or mid-sized business (SMB), you know that IT is essential to your organization's success. You also need various applications to connect with your customers, vendors, and employees. This means that instead of constantly worrying about IT problems, you and your employees can focus on core business activities.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2024

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Many people are familiar with Software as a Service (SaaS), the cloud-computing model in which software applications are delivered over the internet. Introducing BCaaS What is BCaas?

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Solutions Review

APRIL 24, 2023

This class contains six separate sub-courses, including access controls; security operations and administration; risk identification, monitoring, and analysis/incident response and recovery; cryptography; network and communication security; and systems and application security.

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Erwood Group

JULY 7, 2022

What is Business Continuity. So, what is business continuity anyway? So, what is business continuity? Before I give you my answer, let me provide you with the definition from the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) 1600 (Which is their Business Continuity Standard). Business Impact Analysis.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 21, 2022

Collecting and analyzing evidence of malicious network activity. IT is critical both before and after a security event and will be actively involved in all phases of the emergency response plan, including: Preparation: Mapping out IT assets, data, devices, and users within the IT ecosystem. Giving testimony at legal proceedings.

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IT Governance BC

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Whether you’re creating a disaster recovery or business continuity plan, you must conduct a risk assessment and a BIA (business impact analysis). There are plenty of examples of risks, which usually fit into one of six categories , but not all will be applicable to your organisation. Let us explain. Risk assessments.

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eBRP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

For this year’s datacenter failover exercise, 57 Tier 1 and 2 service applications where declared to be “impacted”. Limited application recovery would be performed with service restoration confirmation, but there would be no end-user application testing. The exercise would simulate “Production” failover to a backup datacenter.

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