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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. We often hear people say, “We’re in the cloud, so we don’t have to an IT/DR plan.

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Understanding The Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

everbridge

Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) are often used together and interchangeably. Continued smooth operation is a fairy tale in the business world. Put simply, BC is an organization’s hedge against disaster. Once can argue that both business continuity plans (BCP) and DR are reactive.

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The Best Disaster Recovery Practices for Organizations of All Sizes

Solutions Review

In that event, businesses require a disaster recovery plan with best practices to restore hardware, applications, and data in time to meet the business recovery needs. What is a Disaster Recovery Plan? Notable Best Practices for Disaster Recovery. Why Do I Need One?

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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: The Write Stuff: How to Create and Maintain Business Continuity Documentation Five Ways BC Documentation Can Go Wrong An organization can reap myriad benefits by documenting its business continuity or IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) program in the form of written recovery plans.

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BCM Basics: The Strategic Side of Crisis Management  

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: Critical Assistance: How a Consultant Can Strengthen Your Crisis Management Program According to Strong Language: The MHA Glossary of Essential Business Continuity Terminology , crisis management is “the process of trying to resolve a serious adverse event with minimal impact on an organization and its stakeholders.”

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Get Cyber Smart: How to Make Sure Recovery Plans Align with Information Security Needs  

MHA Consulting

A company that has suffered an outage or disruption for any reason, and which is in the process of recovering its systems and operations, is at a heightened level of vulnerability to every type of event. During an event, use of devices often diverges from the norm. The danger from cyberattacks grows especially acute during this period.

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Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans

Erwood Group

NOTE: DRII takes this definition from the Business Continuity Institute BCI and Disaster Recovery Journal DRJ. While business continuity has been in practice since the 1970s and could be argued that it has been around since the 1950s through strategic planning it is something that is not common knowledge.