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The Four Phases of Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Identify the potential processing impacts at the alternate site. Determine whether a restoration at the alternate site is necessary. Depending on when services can be restored at the primary location, it might not make sense to perform a recovery at the alternate site.

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The Rise of “Quick and Dirty” DR Testing 

MHA Consulting

Reading that now was like looking at a message in a bottle written a hundred years ago.

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Three to Get Ready: The 3 Key Areas of Business Continuity

MHA Consulting

For example, if a gas leak across the street prevents your staff from entering your facility, and no plans have been made to enable them to work from home or at an alternate site, you might be unable to deliver goods and services to your customers, possibly prompting some of them to switch to your competitors.)

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Active Directory and Single Sign On (SSO) in Business Continuity

KingsBridge BCP

This limits your work from home (or work from alternate sites) recovery strategy. Often this place is on a physical server at your office building, in a data center, or hosted in the cloud. It doesn’t matter were your AD server is; if your computer can’t access it, you can’t log in for work.

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The RAAC Crisis – What Can We Learn?

Plan B Consulting

It was initially driven by a response to the London bombings by the IRA, and organisations embraced the new concept of work area recovery to ensure they had an alternative site to move to. Until COVID-19, the loss of a building was the primary concern for business continuity.

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Have Cyber Attacks Killed People?

Plan B Consulting

In many countries, healthcare is under strain, and with the added complication of a cyber attack where staff can lose access to records, notes, their normal operating systems and have to divert patents to alternative sites, it is much more likely for them to make mistakes, leading to increased mortality.

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Have Cyber Attacks Killed People?

Plan B Consulting

In many countries, healthcare is under strain, and with the added complication of a cyber attack where staff can lose access to records, notes, their normal operating systems and have to divert patents to alternative sites, it is much more likely for them to make mistakes, leading to increased mortality. Figure 1.