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The Rise of “Quick and Dirty” DR Testing 

MHA Consulting

Fifteen years ago the prototypical IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) exercise was preceded by months of meticulous preparations and took place over an extended period of time in the equivalent of a hermetically sealed bubble. Boy, have things changed. 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

Related on MHA Consulting: Learning to Talk to Your IT/DR Colleagues Knowing How to Recover Is Still Important With the migration toward cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS), many organizations have grown complacent about IT/DR. Identify the potential processing impacts at the alternate site.

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

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: The Science and Art of Writing an IT/DR Recovery Plan What Are the Most Important Aspects of BC? This might seem inconsistent coming from a consulting firm that describes the BIA as the cornerstone of a good BC program and often talks about the importance of the threat and risk assessment.

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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. appeared first on PlanB Consulting. 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.

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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. The post Failing to plan is… The importance of contingency planning – The quarantine appeared first on PlanB Consulting. The plan was great until we exercised it!