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 […]

Making certain your organization is “Incident Ready” requires a great deal of planning, testing and exercising.  Readiness also requires a qualified and practiced Team to manage your organization’s response to a disruption or disaster.  If you have done all that work, you may have planned for where your Incident Management Team (IMT) will work from […]

Perhaps we’d like to think that Business Continuity ‘standards’ is all that we need to assure our organization is prepared to meet whatever fate and mother nature throw its way.  That’s a nice thought – but not very realistic.  There are as a many variations in what organizations require as there are regulators who oversee […]

When holidays roll around, or summer shines on the horizon, it is human nature to slack off a bit – as your mind begins its own slow descent into holiday mode. Unfortunately, Business Continuity never takes a day off.  Business Continuity Plans are dependent upon people – those critical team members with special skill sets, […]

Before there were automobiles, people traveled only a few miles from their homes – because travel by horse, or on foot, was slow.  For centuries, that limited horizon satisfied most people’s needs.  With the advent of the bicycle, followed by the internal combustion engine, individuals could travel further and faster than ever imagined.  The transition […]

Every Business Continuity Management (BCM) “standard” uses RP0 (Recovery Point Objective) as a key metric, and nearly every BCM program includes that metric – but few understand it, and even fewer know what to do about it.  Should you care? By definition, RPO is the maximum targeted period in which data might be lost from […]

Agencies of the US Federal Government (but Canadian, EU and most other Government agencies as well) have a ‘civic duty’ to provide Continuity of Operations (COOP) to assure the delivery of services to their citizens (as well as other Government operations). In many ways this mandate is no different than the goals or objectives of […]