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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

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Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. There is an order of magnitude difference between the two.

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Get Cyber Smart: How to Make Sure Recovery Plans Align with Information Security Needs  

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Related on MHA Consulting: Be a Hard Target: Train Your Employees in Security Awareness A Uniquely Vulnerable Time In the context of business continuity, the recovery period is a vulnerable one for any organization. During an event, use of devices often diverges from the norm. Risk assessment. Cyber steering committee.

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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

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We’ll also share some ideas on how you can ensure that your documentation is not simply window dressing but is a real aid that can improve your company’s ability to recover in the event of a disruption. 1: Trying to document a recovery plan that does not exist. Common Mistake No.

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Planning to Fail: 10 Common Mistakes Companies Make with Their BC Plans

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Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

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An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. An organization that would suffer a large impact as the result of an outage of two hours should be willing to tolerate very little risk. Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed.

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 

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Ideally, some should be chaos tests where more than one type of event or situation occurs. In the old days when everyone worked in the office, an alternate work location usually meant one facility where everyone would go to keep the business running if the main site became unavailable. The traditional alternate work location.

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The Human Factor: BCM Team Roles and Skill Requirements 

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and how these should be implemented to ensure a swift, effective response in the event of a disruption? Business and Disaster Recovery. Do they understand the key components of business recovery (plan development, recovery strategies, testing, maintenance, etc.)

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