Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. The loss of the Microsoft Active Directory prevented staff access to some systems even although the main systems are all working correctly. We don’t look at routers and the gateway into our systems.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. The loss of the Microsoft Active Directory prevented staff access to some systems even although the main systems are all working correctly. We don’t look at routers and the gateway into our systems.

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PagerDuty

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This can easily be extended to any activity within the Kubernetes ecosystem, and 23 plugins are available for tasks such as maintaining PVs, deploying services, grabbing logs, or running internal jobs. Any drift from this configuration can be corrected by reapplying the Terraform plan. Automated backups ensure that data is always recoverable.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 29, 2024

When it comes to major technological disruptions, cloud service outages, and cybersecurity threats, businesses must be proactive and prepared. Actionable Insights Reduced downtime isn’t just about saving time—it’s about understanding the true cost of inaction and actively implementing measures to minimise it.

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

DECEMBER 10, 2019

. ​Here are two high-value low-investment end-of-year activities to keep your Business Continuity programs on track and ready to face the unexpected in 2020! Exercises Winter presents significant potential for business interruptions and outages.

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Zerto

JANUARY 31, 2024

This data is exposed to potential risks like outages, accidental deletion, and ransomware attacks that can lead to loss or downtime. Moreover, monitoring data activities allows organizations to proactively detect and respond to security threats, such as unauthorized access or data breaches.

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IT Governance BC

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Consider your key activities and functions, and how youll continue those if attacked or otherwise disrupted? In other words, when implementing an ISO 22301 BCMS [business continuity management system], youre asking questions like: What are our critical business activities? Whats important to us as a business? What isnt that important?

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 3, 2021

As a result, businesses were on an ever-revolving turntable of purchasing new arrays, installing them, migrating data, juggling weekend outages, and managing months-long implementations. For our early customers, it has meant a decade without the hassles of migrations, storage refreshes, weekend outages, or application outages.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Though ransomware has dominated conversations in the data protection sphere for quite some time, stories of recent outages due to this threat still circulate. While basking in the lively atmosphere of the event, one dominant theme echoed throughout our booth discussions – ransomware.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

MAY 23, 2022

Using multiple Regions ensures resiliency in the most serious, widespread outages. The Amazon EKS control plane and data plane will be created on demand in the secondary Region during an outage via Infrastructure-as-a-Code (IaaC) such as AWS CloudFormation , Terraform, etc. DR Strategies. Architecture overview. OpenSearch Service.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In terms of bang for the buck, not all business continuity activities are created equal. Pursued purposefully these are all worthwhile activities. However, there is one activity that most BC offices tend to neglect—and pound for pound it is one of the most worthwhile ways a BC professional can spend his or her time.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 22, 2024

When an IT outage strikes, the primary concern is the rapid restoration of services. The correct action, especially in the face of a service outage, would be to opt for a swift rollback of the change that introduced the bug. Or maybe it’s just 2am and not exactly the best time to start coding!

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Service outages ultimately frustrate customers, leading to churn and loss of trust. Continuously monitor system logs to detect unusual activity, such as failed login attempts or unauthorized data transfers. Endpoint detection and response tools monitor and respond to suspicious activities on devices within the network.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Manufacturers must be prepared for all types of disruptive events such as severe weather activity, natural and man-made disasters, hazardous materials incidents, supply chain disruptions, and equipment and technology failures. With so much reliance on electricity and computers, one outage can wreak havoc on your processes.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

Therefore, if you’re designing a DR strategy to withstand events such as power outages, flooding, and other other localized disruptions, then using a Multi-AZ DR strategy within an AWS Region can provide the protection you need. Active/passive and active/active DR strategies. In Figure 3, we show how active/passive works.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation. Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Remember, after an outage, every minute counts…. Pure SafeMode is a built-in feature of the Purity Operating Environment that prevents data from being manually deleted before the policy/timer expires, allowing you to recover quickly in the event of a mistake or malicious activity.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Doing this work is one of the most productive activities a BC professional can undertake. Sorting out such problems can take hours if not days, an expensive proposition if the issue is prolonging an outage. This can be crippling during an outage. This cuts across all areas of BC activity. Having these items is not enough.

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PagerDuty

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Generally available for Enterprise Incident Management customers who have an active Jeli integration. Operations Center Modernization Our latest innovations help teams focus on high-impact incidents, applying automation to proactively resolve issues before they escalate into outages.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The activity of crisis management is also included under the umbrella though that tends to be treated separately.) Its criticality points up the need for everyone involved in improving the organization’s resilience to have a clear understanding of these two fundamental terms and activities.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the context of business and organizations, “continuity” refers to the ability of a company or other type of organization to quickly restore its essential functions, operations, and services in the face of unexpected disruptions or outages.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Higher availability: Synchronous replication can be implemented between two Pure Cloud Block Store instances to ensure that, in the event of an availability zone outage, the storage remains accessible to SQL Server. . Cost-effective Disaster Recovery . Figure 2: Asynchronous replication of volume snapshots from a source to a target.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

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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On Solve

APRIL 30, 2019

Every day, events like the following happen with no warning: Hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters Active shooter Urban wildfire Power outages Cybercrime Disease outbreaks Workplace violence. An emergency notification system is a crucial tool in any business continuity plan.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. Building a relationship with these knowledgeable and dedicated folks ahead of time can make all the difference when and if you experience an outage or disaster.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This automation reduces the burden on IT staff, enabling them to respond to incidents more quickly while focusing on customer service-oriented and strategic activities. Increased operational resilience : A quick response and recovery from IT incidents and outages help institutions mitigate risks associated with system outages or delays.

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Fusion Risk Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Whether it’s supplier challenges, extreme weather, an unplanned outage, or an increased threat of cyberattacks, it seems the next disruption is just around the corner. What happens when a hurricane causes damage to an entire region, causing several sites to go down along with unplanned network outages? Activate Response.

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Business Continuity Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram had a six-hour global outage late last year, Facebook shares fell by 5%, costing founder Mark Zuckerberg an estimated $6 billion in personal wealth. Software maker Adobe was the victim of a cyberattack that compromised about 38 million active users. The company had initially declared that 2.9

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

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.

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KingsBridge BCP

AUGUST 14, 2022

You should be able to use the same BCP to respond to a fire, a train derailment, a power outage, or an active threat. For the purposes of this post, we are talking about how well your BCP allows you to adapt and appropriately respond to different types of incidents. The answers are in your plan content and structure, and training.

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PagerDuty

JULY 31, 2024

They can be large, messy, and complex, like the major outage we saw recently. Beyond impact to customers, service outages and degradations also have financial implications for an organization. During an active incident, time is money and we want to decrease the impact. Or they can be somewhere in between.

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

There are two types of HA clustering configurations that are used to host an application: active-passive and active-active. The standby servers act as a ready-to-go copy of the application environment that can be a failover in case the primary (active) server becomes disconnected or is unable to service client requests.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Estimate how long the outage will last.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 8, 2024

Cloud providers have experienced outages due to configuration errors , distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS), and even catastrophic fires. Get Your Info from the Source For large incidents and major outages, the events are often the main tech news story of the day. This dependence has brought risk.

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PagerDuty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Global Preparedness Month is our World Cup of employee safety where we bring all of our enablement activities home. When facing a critical breach or outage in physical security systems, teams need to understand the where and when in real-time. It’s interactive, cross-functional, fun and endorsed by our Senior Leadership. .

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