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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. It is standard, best practice not to tie your Business Continuity Plan into your single point of failure. To best protect access to your Business Continuity Plan, review SSO redundancy critically. The Solution.

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Why the Business Continuity Plan Must Be a Living Document

Diligent

The business continuity plan – sometimes known as a disaster recovery plan – is an essential document for all organizations, designed to ensure their operations can continue with minimal interruption in the event of an unexpected disruption. What is a Business Continuity Plan (BCP)? Alternative sites.

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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

For these reasons, it’s important that IT departments (and business continuity professionals) make sure their organizations are capable of restoring their IT services after an outage. Identify the potential processing impacts at the alternate site. Determine whether a restoration at the alternate site is necessary.

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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 RAAC Crisis – What Can We Learn?

Plan B Consulting

Once again, we have a business continuity incident dominating the headlines. When business continuity was first conceived in the 1990s, it focused on what we should do if the buildings our organisation worked in became unavailable. Until COVID-19, the loss of a building was the primary concern for business continuity.

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

If we could make up everything on the day of a disaster and have a successful response there would be no point in emergency planning or business continuity, but as we know fine well, having exercised plans in place limits the impact of incidents, saves lives and money and shortens the length of the disruption.

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

If we could make up everything on the day of a disaster and have a successful response there would be no point in emergency planning or business continuity, but as we know fine well, having exercised plans in place limits the impact of incidents, saves lives and money and shortens the length of the disruption.