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Every Business Continuity Plan Should Include Disaster Recovery

everbridge

Disaster recovery is the process of restoring business operations following a disruption. While often paired with business continuity (BC), disaster recovery differs in that it is a component the BC program. Who has governance of the disaster recovery / critical event management communication solution.

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Unlocking the Truth: Navigating 20 Myths About Business Continuity

Erwood Group

Contrary to popular belief, business continuity extends far beyond IT recovery. It encompasses a holistic approach, safeguarding an organization’s people, processes, facilities, technology, vendors, and communications. Myth 2: Business Continuity Plans Are Only for Large Enterprises.

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The Importance of Business Continuity Whitepaper

Erwood Group

For those new, to Business Continuity the Importance of Business Continuity provides a brief overview of what business continuity is and why you should have a continuity plan, but more importantly how to get started developing and implementing your own program for business resilience and preparedness.

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

MHA Consulting

This means that in the blog when I talk about negative consequences, I’m limited to saying, “Believe me, I’ve seen it over and over again: Companies that neglect business continuity planning frequently live to regret it.” Business Continuity Representative. IT Applications.

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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. The strength of a recovery plan relies in part on an accurate and on-target Business Impact Analysis.

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

Erwood Group

Let’s look at what happened with Tessco Technologies, a supplier of wireless communications products for network infrastructure, site support, and fixed and mobile broadband located in Baltimore, Maryland. Due to the outage, he was unable to execute a trade to exit a position and lost $70,000.00 in a single day. Tessco Technologies.

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7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy 

MHA Consulting

(It is often incorrectly assumed that the vendor handles backup and recovery for SaaS/cloud-based applications, relieving the organization of the need to think about this.) Gaps in IT recovery and business availability/recovery requirements. The roadmap and maintenance schedule must include regular disaster recovery exercises.