Turning Business Continuity Into A Competitive Advantage Written by DENNIS WENK January 13, 2014 The pace of technological change and its complexity is challenging traditional business continuity paradigms. What was once considered a best practice in business continuity (BC) no longer serves the new digital-world, and organizations can’t rely on these outdated processes to reach their future objectives. These best practices, and the standards/guidelines which they are based, are unsuitable for the modern technologically-dependent organ…
Log Management: When Disaster Strikes You’ll Be Glad You Did Written by MISHA GOVSHTEYN January 13, 2014 How Log Management Can Enhance Infrastructure Security in Disaster Recovery Situations When an enterprise network goes down – because of natural disaster, accidental system failure, or security breach – the first priority is identifying the impact and restoring the infrastructure to its pre-disaster state. However, how “clean” is the pre-disaster infrastructure? Have servers been tainted with malware that can replicate to multiple…
The State of IT Resiliency and Preparedness Written by Rachel Dines January 13, 2014 Click the thumbnails to view the accompanying figures. Forrester Research and the Disaster Recovery Journal have partnered to field a number of market studies in business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) in order to gather data for company comparison and benchmarking and to guide research and publication of best practices and recommendations for the industry. This is the seventh annual joint survey study, and it’s focused on g…
Complexities of DR Design for the Federal IT Enterprise Written by Mano Malayanur & Julia Nathan April 24, 2014 Design of disaster recovery (DR) solutions is sometimes defined as the art of balancing the cost of disruption against the cost of recovery. This simple and elegant definition often masks the true complexity of DR. Cost of disruption is rarely measured solely in terms of revenue loss and often includes the damage to intangibles such as reputation. Likewise, the true cost of recovery is hard to quantify, and it is spread a…
'To Be or Not To Be' - Prepared for Floods Written by Jeremy Duensing & Jeff Johnson April 25, 2014 It’s safe to say that most of the country has experienced extremely volatile weather within the last few years. Research shows that weather patterns are, and will continue to be, increasingly volatile due to changing climate trends. Whether it’s dauntingly cold temperatures or unexpected heavy snowfall, it’s no longer a question of if severe weather will occur, but rather when, and when it will affect your assets. The risk …
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