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Outsourcing Business Continuity Planning - Outsource BCP

Virtual Corporation

If your enterprise has a disaster recovery plan, you’re on the right track, but these plans don’t always go into the details of how your business will operate and regain access to your data during an outage.

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Determining a Critical Vendor

Fusion Risk Management

Critical vendors require deeper dives, including a thorough review of their business continuity plan, a record of any historical outages, a more frequent review of their financials, and an in-depth analysis of their SOC2 report. Establish guidelines and alerts for continuous monitoring.

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COVID-19 and your response

KingsBridge BCP

Here are 10 questions you should be asking yourself about your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to ensure you’re prepared for COVID-19. Note that they are all just part of good business continuity planning for any business interruption. Can we outsource should we need? We still face outages and shortages.

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The Top 6 Signs You Need to Update Your Data Recovery Plan for 2022

Solutions Review

You can outsource an IT support company to monitor your server and critical data to assess performance and identify potential issues before a disaster can occur. In the event of a natural disaster, equipment failure, or a power outage, and backup files kept on-site will become inaccessible. Over-Reliance on On-Prem Backup .

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It’s OK, it’s in the Cloud: Lessons from the OVH Cloud Data Centre Fire

Plan B Consulting

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. I worked for a German data centre provider and wrote a business continuity plan for them.

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It’s OK, it’s in the Cloud: Lessons from the OVH Cloud Data Centre Fire

Plan B Consulting

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. I worked for a German data centre provider and wrote a business continuity plan for them.

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Five Key Takeaways from the 2021 Business Continuity Event Impact Management Report

Castellan

Rounding out the top 10 most-pressing events organizations are most concerned about: Cyber-attacks: 88% Power outages: 76% Data breaches: 74% Network/communication outages: 58% Pandemic/diseases: 53% Computer viruses: 52% Brand/social media damage: 51% Hurricanes: 47% Fires (not natural) 46% Earthquakes: 40%.