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Taking Care of Business: How to Write a Business Recovery Plan

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Last time, we looked at how to write recovery plans to protect your organization’s computer systems and applications. In today’s post we’re going to lay out how to write plans … The post Taking Care of Business: How to Write a Business Recovery Plan appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

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Related on MHA Consulting: The Cloud Is Not a Magic Kingdom: Misconceptions About Cloud-Based IT/DR The Cloud Is Not a Plan A common misconception today is that the shift from company-owned data centers toward cloud-based environments means companies can quit worrying about IT disaster recovery (IT/DR). (IT/DR The cloud is our plan.”

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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

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Recovering from a cyber incident such as a ransomware attack will require recovery of data and/or data processing equipment and devices. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. Due to the intricacies of this type of recovery, doing it ad hoc is to be avoided.

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Why is so hard to engage an IT Organization???

Stratogrid Advisory

Are we again in the Business vs IT turf wars? IT is (always) busy! We all know that IT is busy. They are delivering new projects, firefighting with IT issues (sometimes daily), patching applications, servers and IT security gear at some wee hours (when the business is getting their beauty sleep).

BCM 52
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Why is so hard to engage an IT Organization???

Stratogrid Advisory

Are we again in the Business vs IT turf wars? IT is (always) busy! We all know that IT is busy. They are delivering new projects, firefighting with IT issues (sometimes daily), patching applications, servers and IT security gear at some wee hours (when the business is getting their beauty sleep).

BCM 52
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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

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BC encompasses the ability to swiftly resume all business functions following a disruption, addressing critical processes from manufacturing to customer service. IT/DR focuses on the recovery of technological assets, whether computers, networks, systems, or applications following a disaster such as a successful cyberattack.

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 

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Traditionally, organizations conducted a Business Impact Analysis every other year or even less frequently, but in today’s fast-moving world, that’s not sufficient. It leaves too much time for systems and applications to change, reducing the relevance of the BIA and the recovery plans based on it.

BCM 98