Digital Resilience & Business Continuity Planning in the post-Covid era …
In the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic, businesses worldwide were forced to confront unprecedented challenges. Organisations had to rapidly adapt to remote work models, ensure data security in a distributed environment and maintain operational continuity amidst a rapidly changing landscape. In this new era, digital resilience has emerged as the foundation of effective business […]
Why Cyber Resilience is not Cyber Security
In today’s digital landscape, protecting sensitive information and safeguarding against cyber threats has become a top priority for organisations. Two concepts that often come up in this context are cyber resilience and cyber security. While related, there are distinct differences between the two disciplines and also to business continuity planning. This post outlines the intricacies […]
COVID19 – Business Recovery Phase
The following is a summary of the status updates and actions in preparing for the Recovery Phase and addressing new risks which have been identified since the COVID-19 Pandemic outbreak. We have now entered into the Business Recovery Phase, which is estimated could now last until the end of the 2020 calendar year, and businesses need to know how to prepare […]
Decommissioning is Part of Disaster Recovery Planning
More moving parts mean more chance of failure. Replace “moving parts” by “comatose IT servers” and the adage still holds true. You may be tempted to reply that 1) there aren’t many of this kind of server anyway, and that 2) comatose servers may not be doing any good, but as such they are not […]
Adapt or Die – A Darwinian Take on Business Continuity
Most businesses experience change constantly. Markets, technologies, regulations and strategies all evolve. Enterprises that stand still get left behind and disappear, one way or another. While we have business continuity theories, principles and tools galore, it’s worth revisiting one of the most fundamental concepts from time to time – that of Darwin’s idea of evolution, […]
How’s Your User Experience for Your Disaster Recovery?
It may sound strange to talk about “touchy-feely” stuff like user experience in the context of IT disaster recovery. After all, the priority is on getting systems up and running again within recovery time and recovery point objectives, rather than sitting around in focus groups discussing feelings and opinions. The only UX that many IT […]