Your Disaster Recovery Plan has a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) – or, perhaps multiple RTO’s for each Application or Service being recovered).  Your Business Continuity Plans have RTO’s for the underlying functions or business processes they are designed to recover. But do these RTO’s really mean the same thing?  Probably not; and if your Business […]

In 1977, Irving Wallace and his children began publication of The Book of Lists (since updated many times). It’s a fascinating book, but only useful for making odd references at parties. The same holds true for Business Continuity Plans. I’ve seen Plans 300 pages long – without a single word telling me what to do. […]

No one can predict when a disruption will happen, nor what the impact will be, what resources will be available, or who might be available to execute the restoration plans. Yet that is the reality of Incident Management planning.  So how do you plan for what you don’t know? Scenarios are often used as planning […]