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The Long Tail of Cyber Incidents – A Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) Case Study

Plan B Consulting

After a cyber attack, if an organisation promises very little impact of the incident in its communications and subsequently finds that in reality it will take a lot longer, they have severely dented their credibility right at the beginning of the incident. They are still unable to process full land searches or accept applications online.

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Safeguarding Your Computer Systems: How to Build an IT Disaster Recovery Team

MHA Consulting

This is especially true of IT disaster recovery planning (IT/DR), the aspect of business continuity that is concerned with the protection and recovery of IT systems, data, and applications. The BC professional on the team ensures that IT recovery plans align with business needs. IT Applications.

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Every Business Continuity Plan Should Include Disaster Recovery

everbridge

Disaster recovery is the process of restoring business operations following a disruption. While often paired with business continuity (BC), disaster recovery differs in that it is a component the BC program. Who has governance of the disaster recovery / critical event management communication solution.

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7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy 

MHA Consulting

It identifies the following: All business processes performed and the recovery time requirements for those processes. Applications and systems used and their importance. Functional importance of applications in terms of IT. Gaps in IT recovery and business availability/recovery requirements.

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The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order 

MHA Consulting

Very few companies, maybe 10 to 15 percent, actually use their recovery strategies and make sure they can truly achieve recovery of the business units, processes, and associated information technology. Recovery Team. Have we communicated the policies and standards to the relevant parties? Are we conducting BIAs regularly?

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Separating the Best from the Rest: An Analysis of Why Business Preparedness Is Critical in an Uncertain Future

Erwood Group

Let’s look at what happened with Tessco Technologies, a supplier of wireless communications products for network infrastructure, site support, and fixed and mobile broadband located in Baltimore, Maryland. Due to the outage, he was unable to execute a trade to exit a position and lost $70,000.00 in a single day. Tessco Technologies.