MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

In today’s post, we list, link to, and sum up MHA’s best blogs on recovery testing, IT/disaster tests, and mock disaster exercises. In it he identified recovery exercises as the second most important tool available to organizations to minimize their risks. Unfortunately, it’s a tool that most companies neglect.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Business Continuity: Beyond Just Planning Business continuity isn’t merely a contingency plan tucked away in a drawer; it’s an active, ongoing strategy. Global enterprises and local startups alike benefited from tailored plans during recent global disruptions, proving the value of customization.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

In today’s post, we list, link to, and sum up MHA’s best blogs on recovery testing, IT/disaster tests, and mock disaster exercises. In it he identified recovery exercises as the second most important tool available to organizations to minimize their risks. Unfortunately, it’s a tool that most companies neglect.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. For business continuity newcomers, few topics are as confusing as the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery. Let’s go over them. That’s all there is to it.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Fifteen years ago the prototypical IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) exercise was preceded by months of meticulous preparations and took place over an extended period of time in the equivalent of a hermetically sealed bubble. However, they were were not very good at revealing gaps in the organization’s real-world recovery capability.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 4, 2024

by Pure Storage Blog The upcoming release of version 1.1 of Pure Protect™ //DRaaS marks a milestone moment for Pure Storage—the first major update to our innovative on-demand disaster-recovery-as-a-service solution. These monstrous VMs require substantial file transfers and consume vast amounts of storage at the recovery site.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 30, 2024

Accelerate Your Kubernetes Journey with Portworx Advanced Services by Pure Storage Blog In the fast-paced world of containerized applications, managing Kubernetes environments efficiently is pivotal for business success. The post Accelerate Your Kubernetes Journey with Portworx Advanced Services appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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everbridge

MAY 9, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explore two concepts, the importance of tailored emergency communication for access and functional needs communities and the need to transform and visualize data into actionable insights. In this endeavor, the ability to swiftly visualize the diverse needs of the community is paramount.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 3, 2022

Planning your business disaster recovery solution is an exhausting process that requires a lot of rehearsal testing and allocation of expensive resources. In a disaster recovery scenario, there are two goals: Recovery time objective (RTO): Restoring critical applications as quickly as possible.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

NFPA offers solutions There are plans that can be put into place that cover what can be done to reduce the possible impact of hurricane damage causing fire or explosions. More specifically, NFPA 1660 addresses hurricanes in multiple chapters in Annex A, along with multiple chapters advising incident pre-planning processes.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Back then, finding information on how to do anything in BC and IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) was impossible. of Homeland Security website has great general information on preparing for disasters. Preparedness Planning for Business. Nowadays, we are in a golden age when it comes to obtaining quality information on doing BC.

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Pure Storage

JULY 18, 2023

Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery by Pure Storage Blog Data infrastructures aren’t just built for storage, performance, and scale—they’re designed for resilience. Two key areas of concern include disaster recovery in general, and, more specifically, cyber recovery.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 13, 2023

Business continuity professionals need to be sure their recovery plans and strategies are fully adapted to the new reality. Business continuity management (BCM) professionals hustled to adapt their recovery strategies and plans to the new workplace model. Those items need to be a separate piece of your recovery plan.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Facility Safety and Security: This person should already have parts of the disaster plan in place in terms of fire safety, theft prevention, limiting building and room access, and so on. Human Resources: HR people have ready access to up-to-date information about the individuals who are important to the plan. Extraversion.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management The Practice of Vulnerability Management Last week, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog about vulnerability management , the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology. This is fine.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 25, 2023

10 Ways to Improve Data Management with Automation by Pure Storage Blog “That’s why they call it work, Son.” Tip: Engaging professional services from an IT vendor, like Pure Storage, is a great way to identify, plan, and complete these automation projects. This facilitates data-driven decision-making and resource planning.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Assure Data Resilience and Recovery Disaster Recovery as a Service Our new disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) improves resilience from natural disasters and cyber disruptions. With Pure Protect //DRaaS, your AWS organization becomes the recovery site. Best of all?

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Pure Storage

JUNE 6, 2023

How Banks Benefit from the New Digital Operational Resilience Act by Pure Storage Blog We’ve all seen how ransomware can bring businesses, local governments, and other organizations to their knees. They must have a plan, ready for execution, in a “day after attack” situation. Promptly detect anomalous activities.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 22, 2022

Your SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system running on SAP HANA (either SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA) is most likely the crown jewel of IT assets within your organization. So, given its importance, you want to make sure you have a solid solution for ensuring it’s highly available or protected in the event of a disaster. Figure 1: .

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Solutions Review

JULY 26, 2022

The editors at Solutions Review have compiled this list of the best free business continuity plan templates available online. With cyber-attacks and natural disasters threatening your data at every turn, being prepared with a business continuity plan is your best defense. Luckily, there are free examples of these plans online.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

When designing a Disaster Recovery plan, one of the main questions we are asked is how Microsoft Active Directory will be handled during a test or failover scenario. In the following architecture, we show how you can protect domain-joined workloads in the case of a disaster. Configuration and Launch of Recovery Plan.

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IT Governance BC

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

A disaster recovery plan gives organisations a process for responding to a variety of incidents. Along with business continuity planning , it’s an essential strategy for managing the ever-increasing risk of disruption. Why you need a disaster recovery plan. Writing your plan. Collect data.

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Zerto

APRIL 25, 2023

When leaders clearly understand how these impacts arise during and after a disruption, they can begin the appropriate level of business continuity planning. BIA is an essential component of risk management and business continuity planning efforts. Upstream losses occur when a key supplier is affected by a disaster.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 13, 2023

10 FAQs by Pure Storage Blog Wiperware, or wiper malware, is a disturbing evolution in cyber warfare that takes no prisoners—not even your data. Ransomware can be extremely disruptive and financially damaging, but there’s at least a possibility of recovery. First, recovering from protected snapshots is key to recovery post-attack.

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Assurance IT

JUNE 18, 2021

One blog is not enough to break down each part. So stay tuned for Assurance IT’s other blogs about business continuity. Only 20% of the businesses have a formal business continuity plan and this is not enough. Keep reading this blog to find out why your enterprise needs a BC plan and what you need in yours.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In recent years, unprecedented factors, such as a global pandemic, have contributed to rather stagnant or flat spending plans. This will help with business continuity, disaster recovery, and security. . Disaster recovery. The post The Four Cs of Sustainability appeared first on Pure Storage Blog.

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IT Governance BC

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Although share prices showed signs of recovery within a couple of days, more than £1 billion was wiped off the stock market value of the firm, as investors worried that retailers may be less keen to buy into the automated warehouse technology having seen that there is a potential vulnerability.*.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

This is still a people-based effort: executing response and recovery still comes down to human beings. The 300-page recovery plan is a thing of the past. Digital natives are adept at making their way through the internet by intuiting connections and skipping around, and they can do the same thing with recovery documentation.

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eBRP

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Insights into creating a successful Disaster Recovery Test. DR Tests are the only way to measure the effectiveness of a Disaster Recovery Program. Test preparations include reviewing DR Plans for correctness, collaborating with the various stakeholders, identifying test metrics, and managing logistics.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 21, 2022

Before a breach, it’s critical to already have an emergency response plan, including a team of key players and the tools they need to get you back online fast. . Recovery: Tests, monitors, and validates systems during the recovery process to ensure that they’re not reinfected or otherwise compromised. Who should be on your ERT?

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Castellan

JULY 15, 2021

When it comes to disaster recovery exercises, your exercise outputs—the reports and results—can be just as valuable, maybe even more so, than the actual exercise itself. That’s why it’s critically important to test, exercise, and document your business continuity and disaster recovery plans frequently.

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eBRP

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Organizations with an active Disaster Recovery program conduct DR Tests to validate the Disaster Preparedness component of their IT Service Continuity strategies. After one of our Utility customers completed their DR Recovery Test preparation steps (see Part 2 of this blog) the time came to test their ability to execute.

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Online Computers

AUGUST 19, 2022

In this blog post, we will discuss five reasons why backups are critical to business success. The advantage of having an off-site backup is that it helps protect against disasters such as fires or floods that could destroy the primary and on-site backup servers. It helps in disaster preparedness. What is data backup?

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LogisManager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

How Often Should A BCP [Business Continuity Plan] Be Reviewed? The process of developing, finalizing, and communicating your initial business continuity plan (BCP) is no small feat. Having an effective business continuity plan review process can impact your business in many ways: Better resource planning.

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Pure Storage

JULY 28, 2021

So, how can your business improve an existing continuity plan with virtualization? V irtualization solutions from Pure Storage ® remove the burden of mundane management duties for your business continuity plan. Double-Strength Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity with Virtualization. from 2020 to $4.1

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Dancing the Tango with Your Business Continuity Consultant The Pervasive Practice of “Inviting by Title” Today’s blog is about a fairly narrow situation but one that we encounter a lot as business continuity consultants.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. In our experience at MHA, most organizations do pretty well with the tactical side of CM—writing plans to accomplish the CM priorities and executing on them when an event occurs.

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