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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Let’s look at them one by one.

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Insights into creating a successful Disaster Recovery Test – Part 2: Preparation

eBRP

Insights into creating a successful Disaster Recovery Test. DR Tests are the only way to measure the effectiveness of a Disaster Recovery Program. Once the objectives of a DR Test are set, the preparation activities can begin. Part 2 – DR Test Preparations. Application Validation Plans: owned by Business Analysts.

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What is the difference between a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan?

SRM

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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The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies

Erwood Group

Let’s explore the transformative role of innovations and emerging technologies in shaping the future of business continuity, along with crisis management and disaster recovery to enhance organizational resilience. Performing real-time diagnostics, automating backup and recovery procedures and more.

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From Homes to Healthcare, KPN Keeps Digital Services Running

Pure Storage

Disaster Recovery in a Diversified Environment. KPN serves millions of customers across the Netherlands, from hospitals using our IoT telemetry services to monitor their equipment to shipping companies running business-critical logistics systems on our cloud. Disaster recovery (DR) and backup also began to show limitations.

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How to Offload Your Risk to a Third Party

MHA Consulting

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. Companies often hire third parties to take on activities that are outside their core competencies, freeing them to do what they do best.

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What’s the difference between a risk assessment and a business impact analysis?

IT Governance BC

Whether you’re creating a disaster recovery or business continuity plan, you must conduct a risk assessment and a BIA (business impact analysis). This information will form the basis of your disaster recovery and/or business continuity plan. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity. Let us explain.