Tips

Tips

• Don't overlook these business resilience plan essentials

  Business resilience planning requires preventive and proactive protections across power supply, systems, cybersecurity and backup procedures. Staff planning is important as well.  Continue Reading

• Why a natural disaster recovery plan is necessary

  Recent storms have shown that organizations need to plan for the worst to be safe. Improve your organization's disaster resilience by being diligent with BC/DR planning.  Continue Reading

• Ransomware disaster recovery: A checklist for continuity

  Protection against ransomware can save a business money and time in the event of an attack. It's critical to plan ahead with BC/DR and security best practices.  Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery environment must back hyper-converged stack

  Hyper-converged infrastructure should work without issues, but can cause complications in your disaster recovery system. Make sure you implement the proper DR checks.  Continue Reading

• Crisis management plan: 12 key elements for resilience

  Starting or revising your crisis management planning? Include these elements in a plan to make sure you don't leave anything out and your organization can run effectively.  Continue Reading

• Adding cybersecurity as a service to a BC/DR plan

  Compare a traditional network perimeter configuration with cloud cybersecurity and see if this new kind of security platform can improve your business continuity.  Continue Reading

• Virtualized disaster recovery environment tests ease pain

  When implementing virtual disaster recovery tests, make sure you have the right people and business support lined up, and test the entire application stack.  Continue Reading

• Nine skills business continuity managers need to succeed

  If you're looking to become a business continuity manager, having a range of areas of expertise can improve your standing in the constantly evolving profession.  Continue Reading

• Why you need a cybersecurity incident response plan with DR

  Business continuity and disaster recovery are often linked, but a cybersecurity incident response may be a stand-alone activity, which shouldn't be the case.  Continue Reading

• Eight warning signs your DRaaS vendor needs replacing

  Have you ever thought your disaster recovery as a service provider may not be quite up to par? It's OK to make a change, especially if you notice one or more of these red flags.  Continue Reading

• Understand virtualized disaster recovery practices and practicalities

  Elements of virtual disaster recovery are not available in the physical world and can make IT life easier. Is it time for your organization to go all-virtual?  Continue Reading

• Cloud disaster recovery plan testing should include provider

  Get your cloud DR test plan in order with this group of guidelines. Find out what your DRaaS vendor has to offer in terms of testing and how to make the most of it.  Continue Reading

• Your business continuity communication plan should include impact of social media

  Social media mistakes can bring down an organization as easily as a technical disruption can. It's important to analyze user activity and include it in a business continuity plan.  Continue Reading

• Business continuity planning steps to keep your organization running

  Tackle the business continuity plan process with this checklist of items that details what to include in documents and who to include in planning and emergency situations.  Continue Reading

• Seven business continuity strategy planning mistakes

  Given the comprehensive nature of business continuity planning, mistakes can happen. Explore some of the most common errors to avoid before a disaster hits.  Continue Reading