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Rehearsing Plan B: The Importance of Mastering Your Workarounds

MHA Consulting

In working with the departments to practice their manual workarounds, you are helping your organization get better at executing on its recovery plans. Unprecedented outages occur all the time. You might need to put on your teacher hat to help your colleagues understand why practicing manual workarounds is important.

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7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy 

MHA Consulting

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. 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.)

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Every Business Continuity Plan Should Include Disaster Recovery

everbridge

Developing a disaster recovery plan concurrently with the overall BC plan is an essential and efficient use of an organization’s time and resources. The analyses will identify critical components of the disaster recovery plan, such as IT recovery time and recovery point objectives.

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

Erwood Group

Due to the outage, he was unable to execute a trade to exit a position and lost $70,000.00 This would allow you to implement a preparedness or IT recovery strategy that enables you to recover in the time you need and more importantly, save money. Even a trader was impacted by a power loss at his home. in a single day.

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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. In times of crisis, a comprehensive business continuity plan ensures that every facet of the organization is resilient.