by Bob Cohen | Mar 28, 2017 | Disaster Recovery
I had an interesting conversation with a client the other day about recovery planning. We’d been talking about recovery strategies from the point of view of what I fondly call the “smoking crater” scenario. Just like individuals, an organization can talk itself into...
by Andrew Shumate | Mar 2, 2017 | Disaster Recovery
If you happened to catch Mariah Carey’s “epic fail” performance on the ABC Channel this past New Year’s Eve, you’ve seen first-hand that equipment failure during a live performance can be disastrous. Equipment issues also created challenges for Lady Gaga and...
by John Verry | Nov 23, 2016 | Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery
I recently spoke at the NJ-GMIS Cyber Security Briefing at New Jersey’s Regional Operations and Intelligence Center (ROIC) on approaches to reducing risk in municipal governments via third-party assessment. The presentation ended up getting very interesting when we...
by Bob Cohen | Aug 25, 2016 | Disaster Recovery
Delta’s recent system-wide IT meltdown took out pretty much every mission-critical, customer-facing system they had: reservations, check-in, flight tracking, even their website and mobile app. All it took to spark the massive failure was a malfunction in a power...
by Bob Cohen | Jun 2, 2016 | Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery
In Part 1 of this blog post, I explained why it’s important to operationally test your disaster recovery (DR) plan, and why a tabletop session is insufficient. In this post, I’d like to talk about what an operational recovery exercise might look like. Any exercise...
by Bob Cohen | May 26, 2016 | Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery
How well do you really know your plan? Chances are you really don’t know if your recovery plan is going to work until you test it. Because no matter how good you are at determining requirements and developing plans, no one gets everything 100% right coming out of the...
