Author: eBRP Thoughts

Industry research shows that 70% of respondents believe Cyber threats are most likely to disrupt businesses.  Whether it is data breach, denial of service or ransomware, these attacks are on the rise. Ransomware in 2016 has cost the industry more than $350 million. Unlike other business disruptions, cyber threats are deliberately engineered and cyber criminals […]

Ever since IT organizations—both large and small—started injecting ‘agility’ into their already complex technology-driven environment, business risks began to rise gradually. While IT disasters were not uncommon, some were so severe that it crippled an organization’s entire workflow. Meanwhile, emerging as a ray of hope amid these circumstances, eBRP Solutions identified that although there were […]

Enterprise Contingency Planning has evolved beyond traditional Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, and is today demanding the creation of a resilient, always-on business operations 24 x 7. Is this deliverable? The Risk Management fraternity believes that through the process of risk mitigation & controls, enterprises can be risk free! (Neither we, nor Murphy, subscribe to […]

Effective Incident Management requires communication plans to address – Who needs to know? When should they be updated? What do they need to know? (a) By leveraging communication, BCM programs can be more efficiently managed (b) Different modes of communication – SMS for immediate action; Emails for more detailed responses. Using an Emergency Notification System […]

Recently, eBRP was invited to participate as observers of an Annual DR test of a southwest energy Company – conducting its first Disaster Recovery test of its new Backup Data Centre. Our role included assisting and advising client teams on leveraging features of our eBRP Suite (which holds all their planning and Plan information) to […]