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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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Taking the Next Step from Business Continuity

Fusion Risk Management

For business continuity professionals, the goal is to protect the organization’s continuity of operations. So, how can we be more proactive as continuity professionals? Instead of planning what your response will be to an event or a disaster, you can try to identify risks that could cause that event.

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Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup

Stratogrid Advisory

They will all have some very high-level, but somewhat relevant business continuity related jargon, but in the first few sentences, the narrative will change from Business Continuity to IT Disaster Recovery. They are also the ones who will ultimately help you recover your IT systems and applications past disruption.

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Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup

Stratogrid Advisory

They will all have some very high-level, but somewhat relevant business continuity related jargon, but in the first few sentences, the narrative will change from Business Continuity to IT Disaster Recovery. . Business Continuity Strategies and Business Continuity Planning.

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Why is so hard to engage an IT Organization???

Stratogrid Advisory

So why is it so darn hard to engage an Information Technology (IT) organization (internal or external) in any business continuity planning activities? I spoke with many Business Continuity Professionals, and this seems to be the case in many organizations. It’s happening everywhere! Are we again in the Business vs IT turf wars?

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Why is so hard to engage an IT Organization???

Stratogrid Advisory

So why is it so darn hard to engage an Information Technology (IT) organization (internal or external) in any business continuity planning activities? . I spoke with many Business Continuity Professionals, and this seems to be the case in many organizations. It’s happening everywhere! IT is (always) busy!

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

The Disaster Recover y Institute International ( DRII ) and the Business Continuit y Institute ( BCI ) are the two major governing bodies that are responsible for defining and developing business continuity practices as well as certifying business continuity professionals.