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 […]
Towards Set-It-And-Forget-It Business Continuity
Few activities and operations are truly set it and forget it. Lights-out factories like the showcase installation run by technology company Siemens are proof of concept, but still the exception. Business continuity in most cases requires periodic adjustment because environments and conditions are constantly changing. However, here’s a thought that could change that. The idea […]
Why Stop at Just Disaster Recovery with Your DRP?
Do more with less. Who hasn’t already heard that in business? And just because something – like disaster recovery planning and management – is vital to ensuring enterprise survival does not mean that you cannot leverage your investment to get more out of it. The more DRP and DRM can help you increase profits or […]
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 […]
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.
Insiders, Still One of IT Security’s Biggest Problems
The enemy is (largely) within, when it comes to the security of information and information systems. Knowing how and why insider threats materialise is a big step towards dealing with them.