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Guest Posting on Hurricane Sandy

Recovery Diva

Are there scholars still working on post-Katrina New Orleans through analysis of its recovery and transformation over the last 15-20 years? Now may be the time to revisit the excellent scholarship on post-disaster recovery conducted after Katrina and to do a retrospective assessment of 20-years of long-term recovery in New Orleans.

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

MHA Consulting

The BC professional on the team ensures that IT recovery plans align with business needs. Business needs are determined by a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) completed before disaster recovery planning begins. The coordinator also helps resolve problems encountered and removes roadblocks that might slow the process down. IT Applications.

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The Importance of Business Continuity Whitepaper

Erwood Group

Inside The Importance of Business Continuity, you’ll learn more about minimizing downtime, Protecting strategic elements and assets, maintaining your reputation, communicating efficiently, resuming operations, how preparedness measures mitigate costs, methods of calculating ROI, and more. The best part is it’s free.

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Unlocking the Truth: Navigating 20 Myths About Business Continuity

Erwood Group

Section 1: The Scope of Business Continuity Myth 1: Business Continuity is Only About IT Disaster Recovery or DR. Contrary to popular belief, business continuity extends far beyond IT recovery. It integrates people, processes, properties, communication, technology and other key areas.

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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.

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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. Have we communicated the policies and standards to the relevant parties? Do we enforce them?