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Business Continuity Planning for the Manufacturing Industry

everbridge

Building a Business Continuity Plan for the Manufacturing Industry. For those in the manufacturing industry, critical events threaten financial loss due to unplanned downtime, reduced factory utilization rates, lost revenue, and even employees put at risk. Manufacturing Industry-Specific Dangers. Brand diminishment.

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Breakthrough Award: Nissan Australia, Our G.O.A.T. Winner for APJ

Pure Storage

Setting the Pace for IT Performance Nissan’s Australia manufacturing plant is renowned across its global ecosystem for producing vehicle components of the highest quality. The manufacturing processes they support—like the aluminum casting required to produce powertrain and engine components—are energy-intensive and prone to outages.

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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

MHA Consulting

The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. It’s relevant for financial services, consumer businesses, manufacturing—everyone. It’s vital that they retain it as a backup. Getting manually logged data into the system when the outage is over.

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Is your business ready for any disaster? Review this 5-point disaster preparedness checklist

Online Computers

Employee safety is especially critical to businesses in the manufacturing and construction industries, as these sectors already face a high degree of worker exposure and potential for harm, which can be exacerbated by disasters. Secure your backups. Related reading : Best practices for backup management.

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How to Create a Network Disaster Recovery Plan

Pure Storage

Even with backups, it was six days before the energy company was able to get its systems up and running again. Prolonged outages can lead to direct revenue loss, contractual penalties, and lost opportunities, all of which can be avoided or minimized with an effective recovery plan. Downtime is enormously expensive.

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Who Are Ransomware Attackers and What Are They After?

Pure Storage

State and local governments, police departments, and companies that deal in healthcare, education, and manufacturing have some of the most high-value data. Second is a disturbing trend of late: targeting essential service providers that lead to massive outages and widespread disruptions. How Can You Avoid Being a Ransomware Victim?

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Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management

MHA Consulting

It helps organizations reduce risk, outages, impacts, and costs, such as insurance costs. The Telltale Signs of Good and Bad Risk Management When I visit a client’s facility, whether it’s an office, manufacturing plant, data center, or something else, I can tell quickly whether they manage risk well or not. ERM is all about reducing.