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Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

MHA Consulting

But one thing we find a lot is that organizations with elaborate BC programs—they’ve done lots of BIAs and have extensive plans and other documentation—are often not nearly as resilient as they think they are. The issue, more often than not, is that their operations and response plans are riddled with unidentified gaps.

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What MSP services can help ensure business continuity?

Online Computers

These activities keep your systems up to date and fine-tuned, helping prevent unexpected failures and ensure smooth business operations. They will execute well-defined recovery plans, including procedures for data restoration, system configuration, and application recovery.

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Prepare Your Organization for a Hurricane

everbridge

A unified critical event management platform can automate emergency notifications and communications, while centralizing all event activity. Evaluate emergency response plans to verify they are flexible and scalable enough to accommodate contingencies. Emergency Management During a Hurricane. Hurricane Preparedness on Campus.

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Introduction to Business Continuity Planning

Stratogrid Advisory

organizations have to develop response plans to deal with events related to natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes or freezing rain, as well as any technological disruptions such as loss of data centers, data or privacy breaches and IT security-related incidents. Regardless of the industry (e.g. Where do you start?

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

Instructions about how to use the plan end-to-end, from activation to de-activation phases. References to Crisis Management and Emergency Response plans. A schedule defining reviews, tests of the plan. Note that the DRP can be invoked without triggering the activation of the BCP.

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IT Resilience Within AWS Cloud, Part II: Architecture and Patterns

AWS Disaster Recovery

Backup solutions like database and Amazon S3 replication can provide RPO of a few minutes at most, but RTO will vary considerably. Backup and restore (Tier 4). This pattern may incur more data loss depending on backup schedules. Active-active (Tier 1). Back up critical data to another Region. Pilot light (Tier 2).

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity is not a data backup. The Managed Services Providers (MSPs) industry has managed to h ij ack the Business Continuit y term , and it became all about data backup. A data backup is only one component of I T D i s a s t e r R e c o v e r y P l a nn i n g , which we address in Section 7.