Category: Disaster Recovery

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  An effective response to an incident requires many things.  We’ve combined them into a 5-part “Incident Horizon”: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  In this blog we look at the composition of one of those […]

When contemplating Business Continuity strategies, one of the foremost scenarios to consider is (and should be): what if the building is not accessible? Twenty years ago the only viable answer would have been to transfer people to an unaffected building (or to a predetermined 3rd party ‘work space’).  Ten years ago, forward thinking IT departments […]

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  An effective response to an incident requires many things.  We’ve combined them into a 5-part “Incident Horizon”: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  In this blog we look at the composition of one of those […]

Every organization faces risks – and some of those risks may result in disruptions or other ‘incidents’.  An effective response to an incident requires many things.  We’ve combined them into a 5-part “Incident Horizon”: Planning, Preparedness, Initial Response, Planned Response and Extended Response.  In this blog we look at the composition of one of those […]

As we’ve written about in an earlier blog, the Business Continuity industry still tends to confuse Incident Management and Crisis Management.  To stave off argument, let’s agree on this:  Incident Managers handle the response to and recovery from a disaster or business disruption.  Crisis Managers work to minimize the negative response – from customers, vendors, […]