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The Rise of “Quick and Dirty” DR Testing 

MHA Consulting

Reading that now was like looking at a message in a bottle written a hundred years ago.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Identify the potential processing impacts at the alternate site. Determine whether a restoration at the alternate site is necessary. Depending on when services can be restored at the primary location, it might not make sense to perform a recovery at the alternate site. Identify potential points of data loss.

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Active Directory and Single Sign On (SSO) in Business Continuity

KingsBridge BCP

This limits your work from home (or work from alternate sites) recovery strategy. During “business as usual” SSO allows you to enter your user name and password once and you can access all of the applications and programs you need. Your AD server truly is a single point of failure from the technology side.

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What is a Business Impact Analysis (BIA)?

Stratogrid Advisory

List of IT applications - internally and externally hosted IT and business applications mapped to the business functions and processes. Contact information - A responsibility of the Human Resources department (internal contacts) and the IT department (external applications contacts). BIA - the letter "A" stands for analysis.

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Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

Loss of Technology: Loss of technology addresses the loss of one or more core critical technologies including, applications, data, data center, and network, hosted and delivered by the Technology Department. Loss of Workplace : Only one primary site or location is impacted or disrupted at any time. Assumptions. Business Functions.

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The New Normal

BCP Builder

Perhaps if people understood that Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management need to be looked at from a difference lens that would have been applicable say 15 years ago due to the volatile and uncertain environment that we are in? We now need to look at enabling “work from where you are” rather than trying to travel.

BCP 52
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The New Normal

BCP Builder

Perhaps if people understood that Business Continuity, IT Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management need to be looked at from a difference lens that would have been applicable say 15 years ago due to the volatile and uncertain environment that we are in? We now need to look at enabling “work from where you are” rather than trying to travel.

BCP 52