You know that Cyber Security is an important Business Continuity Planning (BCP)/COOP issue, but like everything else in the BCP/COOP world, unless you get buy-in across the board, Cyber Security policies and procedures will be ignored. So the purpose of this articl [ ... ]

Incident response – the art and science of responding to computer and network security breaches – is an often overlooked component of business continuity. For whatever reasons, the procedures associated with handling network intrusions and insider shenanigans ar [ ... ]

The word disaster should not be thought of as literal in the term “Disaster Recovery Planning,” but instead as more of a generic term for “downtime.” And, no business owner likes downtime, because time lost usually translates to money lost. So, when plannin [ ... ]

In the preponderance of the organizations we support, a key impediment to effective Disaster Recovery is the fact that it is an afterthought in the system lifecycle – rather than a component of the overall solution architecture. This results in tactical Disaster  [ ... ]

New Technologies – Champions on a White Horse. Really? A survey released last year by PricewaterhouseCoopers showed a decline in disaster preparedness among the companies polled. The percentage of firms claiming to have tested disaster recovery plans had declined  [ ... ]