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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

Instructions about how to use the plan end-to-end, from activation to de-activation phases. Since most businesses today are heavily IT reliant, DRP tends to focus on business data and information systems by addressing one or several points of failure including application downtime, network outages, hardware failure, data loss, etc.

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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

The activity of crisis management is also included under the umbrella though that tends to be treated separately.) Theoretically, the business departments are free to say anything they want in terms of how quickly the business functions need to be brought back online in order to keep the impact of a disruption within acceptable levels.

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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. We at MHA are happy to participate in these types of conversations and activities. BC strategy development is not a “one and done” activity.

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Risk Assessment, BIA, SLAs, RTOs, and RPOs: What’s the Link? MTD and MTDL

Zerto

Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. Differentiating Between Risk Assessment (RA) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA). What Is a Business Impact Analysis?

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The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional

MHA Consulting

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest. Artificial intelligence is coming to BC.

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Business Continuity as a Business Strategy

Disaster Recovery Journal

The investigation and cleanup activities forced changes in business operations. Unexpected power outages and equipment failures were familiar events that crippled technology but not manual procedures. The city condemned the law office building requiring the law practice to seek a new facility.

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Business Continuity as a Business Strategy

Disaster Recovery Journal

The investigation and cleanup activities forced changes in business operations. Unexpected power outages and equipment failures were familiar events that crippled technology but not manual procedures. The city condemned the law office building requiring the law practice to seek a new facility.