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Safeguarding Your Computer Systems: How to Build an IT Disaster Recovery Team

MHA Consulting

This is especially true of IT disaster recovery planning (IT/DR), the aspect of business continuity that is concerned with the protection and recovery of IT systems, data, and applications. The BC professional on the team ensures that IT recovery plans align with business needs. IT Applications.

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7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy 

MHA Consulting

It identifies the following: All business processes performed and the recovery time requirements for those processes. Applications and systems used and their importance. Functional importance of applications in terms of IT. Gaps in IT recovery and business availability/recovery requirements.

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Every Business Continuity Plan Should Include Disaster Recovery

everbridge

Disaster recovery comprises a set of policies or procedures designed to ensure effective communication during the event and facilitate the return to normal operations, the recovery of IT systems, and the restoration of uptime for mission-critical applications. Both tasks require assessment of business impact and risk analyses.

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The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order 

MHA Consulting

Very few companies, maybe 10 to 15 percent, actually use their recovery strategies and make sure they can truly achieve recovery of the business units, processes, and associated information technology. Recovery Team. This is about not just stress testing, but practice as well, and most organizations don’t do nearly enough of it.

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Separating the Best from the Rest: An Analysis of Why Business Preparedness Is Critical in an Uncertain Future

Erwood Group

With this process, businesses can select strategies to enable a recovery that makes sense financially and gives leaders peace of mind that no matter what uncertainties the future may bring, organizations will thrive and even profit for years to come.