MHA Consulting
OCTOBER 26, 2023
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. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.
MHA Consulting
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Related on MHA Consulting: Be a Hard Target: Train Your Employees in Security Awareness A Uniquely Vulnerable Time In the context of business continuity, the recovery period is a vulnerable one for any organization. Ideally, this group will be aware of the need to integrate cyber security and business recovery.
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MHA Consulting
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
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.
MHA Consulting
JANUARY 18, 2024
Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.
MHA Consulting
MARCH 2, 2023
An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. An organization that would suffer a large impact as the result of an outage of two hours should be willing to tolerate very little risk. Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed.
MHA Consulting
OCTOBER 5, 2023
What often happens is, when the senior leadership sees how much it would cost to meet the lofty goals of the BC department, they realize that the damage of a longer outage might not be quite as great as they first thought—and that maybe their recovery goals don’t have to be quite so stringent.
MHA Consulting
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Unprecedented outages occur all the time. Be prepared for pushback by people who say there’s no point in rehearsing a workaround because the primary method for doing that particular task will never go down. You might need to put on your teacher hat to help your colleagues understand why practicing manual workarounds is important.
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