by Bob Cohen | May 23, 2018 | Disaster Recovery
One of the most important elements of a business impact analysis (BIA) or other business continuity planning exercises is identifying each function’s critical records. The survival of your business may depend on the availability of critical records. Without them,...
by Bob Cohen | May 4, 2018 | Disaster Recovery
I often blog about disaster recovery planning and business continuity planning, including strategies for exercising your plan to help ensure that it’s (still) viable. While there’s no substitute for an operational exercise, many organizations opt for the tabletop...
by Bob Cohen | Apr 19, 2018 | Business Continuity Management
As the first step in business continuity planning, a business impact analysis (BIA) requires a strategic understanding of the business as a whole to drive the conscious, informed prioritization of functions across the entire organization. But as you know if you’ve...
by Bob Cohen | Jun 27, 2017 | Business Continuity Management
To truly achieve robust information security, you need effective Business Continuity Management (BCM). A BCM plan answers the question, “How can critical data be secure and accessible if one or more major business functions are down?” A big part of creating effective...
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...
