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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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The Rise of “Quick and Dirty” DR Testing 

MHA Consulting

However, a recognition of the limitations of that approach, combined with changes in technology and society, have pushed the old methods to the brink of obsolescence. 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

Prioritize your services and technologies so you know which to restore first. Identify which services and technologies your mission-critical services depend on; these will also need to be restored quickly. Test across all the different technologies. Identify the potential processing impacts 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. Your AD server truly is a single point of failure from the technology side. It doesn’t matter were your AD server is; if your computer can’t access it, you can’t log in for work. The Solution.

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

MHA Consulting

In business continuity, the “three to get ready” are: Information technology. Why is information technology the top priority? Having appropriate technology workarounds and planning for non-technology events requires planning and preparation. Business processes. This does not mean it’s a good idea.

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Why the Business Continuity Plan Must Be a Living Document

Diligent

Alternative sites. Personnel issues – absence or inability to get to any alternative location. It’s advisable to consider the new technologies you have adopted since your last BCP review. Cover all the aspects of your operations that might be impacted by an outage or disaster, including: Power supply. Data management.

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Did Your Emergency Response Team Survive the Pandemic?

FEI

In the past, when planning tabletop exercises and full-scale drills with emergency response teams, I would pose the following questions: Do you have an alternate site for the EOC if the current one becomes unusable? Outline technology requirements to support remote operations.