Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. Savvy organizational leaders employ corporate strategies such as disaster recovery and business continuity to nimbly navigate through such emergencies and maintain functionality in the face of disasters. What is a Business Continuity Plan?

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Business continuity planning helps to identify risks via risk assessment and BIA activities. The resulting business continuity plans (BCP) address these risks from these three aspects of resilience and are therefore essential to enable business resilience. The Business Continuity Solution to Keep You Resilient.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 15, 2020

The conclusion was that to be successful and effective, Business Continuity Planning must be an organization-wide activity. So why is it so darn hard to engage an Information Technology (IT) organization (internal or external) in any business continuity planning activities? It’s happening everywhere!

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 15, 2020

The conclusion was that to be successful and effective, Business Continuity Planning must be an organization-wide activity. So why is it so darn hard to engage an Information Technology (IT) organization (internal or external) in any business continuity planning activities? . It’s happening everywhere!

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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. We’re also available any time on demand.

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Application: Predictive analytics enables organizations to rapidly assess risks and proactively implement measures to mitigate the impact of potential disruptions. Application: In the event of a cybersecurity breach, AI automates the identification, containment, and eradication of threats, reducing response time.

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Business continuity plans that address specific identified and assessed operational risks. Your operational resilience strategy should also incorporate specific actions, processes, and behaviors that connect the dots between all corporate governance and risk management activities. Next: IT Resilience.

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Stratogrid Advisory

APRIL 18, 2020

The Business Impact Analysis (BIA) is a cornerstone of the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program. It is an activity that will identify mission-critical business functions, processes or services in your organization, and the resources required to timely recover those activities. The BIA is an organization-wide activity.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations Last Updated on June 4, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 26 minutes We all live in an unpredictable world. We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations. We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization. It can be overwhelming if your organization has never implemented a robust business continuity program. ARTICLE SECTIONS.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This analysis helps stakeholders and business continuity planning teams to arrive at recovery timeframes and the steps needed to fortify operations and internal resources from the projected impacts. The BIA part of the business continuity planning is most likely where the MTD will be defined for critical business processes.

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Castellan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

While these processes and older, expensive governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tools have been used in business continuity for decades, if you’ve relied on any of them, you know they’re time-consuming, error-prone, and a real headache. When specifying and purchasing business continuity software there are a few key points to consider.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Everyone knows business continuity planning can help organizations prepare for emergencies. It has to do with the activation and use of the incident management team. Many clients activate their incident management teams once a year, when they conduct their annual tabletop exercise.

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Erwood Group

OCTOBER 27, 2020

There are many ways in which Business Continuity can provide a business with tremendous value. Not just during an activation of the plan itself, which may keep the business from suffering substantial losses, but even during times of normal business operations. Let’s look at each of these and others in more detail.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We at MHA are happy to participate in these types of conversations and activities. Step 3: Determine the Members of Your BCM Team To develop a BC strategy you need to assemble a business continuity management (BCM) team. Applications and systems used and their importance. Functional importance of applications in terms of IT.

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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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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. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 4, 2023

The plan should progress naturally from when an event happens, to the activation of the plan, to steps for recovery, to going back to business as usual. The strength of a recovery plan relies in part on an accurate and on-target Business Impact Analysis. Do you know if they’re protected by a business continuity plan?

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2021

This week, Charlie goes into depth about different business continuity plans, how to know which plan suits which incident, and how to create a framework that works for you! I have spoken about the requirement for writing generic response plans in a previous bulletin.

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Castellan

AUGUST 18, 2021

According to ISO 22300:2021 , a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) is the “period of time following an incident within which a product or service or an activity is resumed, or resources are recovered.”. Email application: 4 hours Finance systems and services: 1-2 days Customer Relationship Management System (CRM): 1 day.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 6, 2019

Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 5 minutes There is something that bothers many Management Consultants in the Business Continuity and Information Technology field. Business Continuity Planning process will uncover your critical business processes and functions.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 6, 2019

There is something that bothers many Management Consultants in the Business Continuity and Information Technology field. Have you tried to search for the terms “Business Continuity” or “ Business Continuity Planning ” on Google or Bing search engines recently? Please do, and the results may surprise you.

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BCP Builder

APRIL 20, 2020

All aspects of Business Continuity, including planning, training, stress testing and exercising of Business Continuity Plans will be seen as a priority. Many professionals in senior roles did not understand, nor even care to understand business continuity and organisational resilience strategies.

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BCP Builder

APRIL 20, 2020

All aspects of Business Continuity, including planning, training, stress testing and exercising of Business Continuity Plans will be seen as a priority. Many professionals in senior roles did not understand, nor even care to understand business continuity and organisational resilience strategies.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2021

This style of plan was once very popular in the US, and I still use it occasionally. The present way of writing business continuity plans are based on the concept, I don’t care how or why the building is unavailable, but the plan will cover how to continue to deliver essential activities as if a key asset was lost.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Doing this work is one of the most productive activities a BC professional can undertake. Often tests feature limited integration, excluding remote sites and limiting testing of applications, even critical ones. This cuts across all areas of BC activity. Having these items is not enough. They have to work. Inadequate training.

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Castellan

JULY 1, 2021

By building active engagement, your team members can better understand how their individual roles fit into the bigger picture for organizational success. It’s OK to periodically test a black swan event, but do your best to ensure its applicable and, at least, possible. Test assumptions.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 23, 2022

It’s simple to activate snapshots and set up replication, which can help you facilitate quick recovery in the event of a system failure or data loss. . While an IT professional’s primary job is to ensure user access to data and applications, security should be a high priority for everyone, regardless of their role.

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Erwood Group

JULY 7, 2022

Business Continuity Strategies. Plan Development and Implementation. Business Continuity Plan Exercises, Assessment, and Maintenance. Addressing each of the areas named above as part of your business continuity program increases your ability as a business to recover and operate the business. Risk Assessment.

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On Solve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The IT department had a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of returning all critical applications in 24 hours; at every DR drill, they claimed they met the RTO. The IT DR responders said that they would work all night and recover all applications by 8:00 AM Thursday. We were told to recover applications and we did. And that they did.

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Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The platform also offers continuity planning capabilities, allowing users to sequence their actions based on dependency and what-if analysis, rather than static plans. Additionally, users can utilize continuous control monitoring and self-assessments to report on their risk posture and activity in near real-time.

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Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Our professional services team provides consulting services to local government agencies, universities and colleges, hospitals and health care systems and private commercial industry clients on business continuity planning, emergency management and public safety technology, governance and operations.

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Zerto

APRIL 6, 2023

Risk management attempts to control future threats by planning preemptively and deploying effective risk-control measures. In this miniseries, we are going to follow the entire risk management process, focusing on its application to operational risks.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. I worked for a German data centre provider and wrote a business continuity plan for them.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. I worked for a German data centre provider and wrote a business continuity plan for them.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 18, 2019

If you look at most mature business continuity organisations, on the whole they will have an exercise programme and it usually consists of each plan being exercised once a year by the team. Some go a bit longer between them, but these are the main exercise activities. This exercise may only take an hour to carry out.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 18, 2019

If you look at most mature business continuity organisations, on the whole they will have an exercise programme and it usually consists of each plan being exercised once a year by the team. Some go a bit longer between them, but these are the main exercise activities. This exercise may only take an hour to carry out.

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