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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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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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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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6 Ways to Elevate Your Testing and Exercising Program

Fusion Risk Management

Functional Exercises : These involve the actual execution of certain tasks or processes, such as sending employees to work from an alternate site. They are excellent for building relationships and understanding roles but may lack the depth provided by more hands-on tests. They validate specific strategies but can be resource-intensive.

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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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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

In the exercise, we simulated the loss of the depot and simulated the staff and vehicles operating from their designated alternative sites. Therefore, the plan written was that each depot had 2-3 designated depots it would split its parcels across. The plan was great until we exercised it!

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Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine

Plan B Consulting

In the exercise, we simulated the loss of the depot and simulated the staff and vehicles operating from their designated alternative sites. Therefore, the plan written was that each depot had 2-3 designated depots it would split its parcels across. The plan was great until we exercised it!