Job Description Perform highly advanced (senior level) Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and research, consultative services and technical support across Mainframe, Cloud, Open Systems platforms, Network Infrastructure and Data Storage Systems....
Job Description Critical Path Solution is a premier 8A company that ensures compliance with National Security Presidential Directive supporting United States government agencies in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area and nationally. The Disaster...
Job Description This position specializes in IT Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations Planning to provide leadership and guidance in developing and implementing efficient, effective plans and procedures for Minnesota IT Services (MNIT). In this role, you will...
Job Description Job Posting #3053 Position: Business Continuity Planner Number of openings: 2 Industry: Insurance/Financial Services/Real Estate Location: Jacksonville, FL (will consider non-local candidates located in the domestic US) Reports to: Head of Business...
Job Description Business Continuity Sr. Analyst will support all aspects of the company’s Business Continuity (BC) Incident Response and Technology Recovery (TR) functions. Additionally, the position will be responsible for executing on the operational facets of...
Overview Business Continuity Sr. Analyst will support all aspects of the company’s Business Continuity (BC) Incident Response and Technology Recovery (TR) functions. Additionally, the position will be responsible for executing on the operational facets of the...
Job Description BC Management – Job Posting #3041 Position: IT Disaster Recovery Analyst, Senior Status: Direct-Hire or Contract to Hire Compensation: Based on Experience Our client is looking for an IT Disaster Recovery analyst to join our IT Security and...
Denise Alexander Denise Alexander is currently Vice President and Senior Business Continuity Consultant for Bank of America. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Denise serves as lead global recovery and resolution exercise consultant for the enterprise readiness...
1. Can you provide real world examples of ransomware policies? What recommendations can you offer companies to develop an effective policy? [ZEESHAN KAZMI] Have a very solid backup policy and make it part of your BC requirements right after life safety and...
Mission Statement To support and contribute to global information sharing in Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning fields for the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) community. Member Roles & Responsibilities Participate in committee meetings....
Job Description: Assist MetLife Lines of Business in the assurance of business resiliency for allocated business units providing relationship management in terms of: Risk Management, Analysis, Provisioning & Recovery Strategies, Plan Development, Education...
Some things are hard to predict. And others are unlikely. In business, as in life, both can happen at the same time, catching us off guard. The consequences can cause major disruption, which makes proper planning, through business continuity management, an essential...
Social Media Marketing It’s a new era of communication and marketing. Companies and brands must take advantage of the power of social media to stand out in a crowded digital world. The DRJ social media platform is one of the best ways for you to connect with...
Recovery Efforts from IRMA and Harvey Hurricane Irma: https://www.usa.gov/hurricane-irma Hurricane Harvey: https://www.usa.gov/hurricane-harvey Click Here for an Interactive Hurricane Map Articles BCI: Hurricane Harvey 2017 — Have Lessons Been Learned?...
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Download the PDF: UPDATED: July 10, 2017 Published by the DRJ Professional Program and Development Committee What it is: Have you ever been asked to develop an exercise of your emergency management or crisis management plan? Your business continuity or...
Brian Knox When Brian Knox took a class on risk assessment and business continuity at the University of Washington, he didn’t know it would lead to a career in the field. “The instructor of the class mentioned an internship that was...
GroupDoLists brings emergency response teams together to handle crises more efficiently than ever before. GroupDoLists centralizes and simplifies team coordination during incidents, instantly creating a common operating picture that harmonizes processes and procedures...
Are you a young business continuity professional? Are you interested in getting more involved in networking and building lasting professional contacts? Well, we want to hear from you. We want your opinions and thoughts on all things business continuity, resiliency and...
In the current business climate where budgets are increasingly stretched, competition is increasing, and the impetus is on doing more, there is a driving need for organizations to ensure operations are running smoothly. While the ever-important customer experience and...
The cloud is no longer just a consideration. It’s a requirement. Some 78 percent of organizations expect cloud spending to increase in the next three years, according to a recent Economist Intelligence Unit survey. Just 6 percent said they had a quarter or less...
Among DR/BC customers many plan to rely only on near real time replication and frequent snapshots as an appropriate (and only) solution for protecting data. And, while the near-real-time replication and frequent snapshots are essential to any disaster recovery and...
The old “once-in-a-lifetime” disaster seems almost common place nowadays. Recently that catastrophic image filled the news yet again. A very large forest fire broke out in the Smoky Mountain National Park and spilled over to the town of Gatlinburg, Tenn....
Your hospital IT department has gotten tough on data security. It has strengthened firewalls, encrypted laptops, and instituted mobile device management that can remotely wipe mobile devices if they’re lost or stolen. Hospital policies require frequent password...
One of the challenges I have seen over my 30 years in the business continuity industry is for people charged with executing DR or BC plans to accept and execute the plans in the format they are written. Nowhere has this been more evident than in the area of IT...
Every day we hear about cyber attacks impacting large retailers, small businesses, hospital systems, and even esteemed financial institutions. Is your organization prepared for this kind of assault? How prepared are you? What would your team do if a breach were...
New risks are emerging every day in the realm of cybersecurity, and many organizations are moving quickly to address these risks: developing documentation, procedures, and processes. However, this is often without regard for cybersecurity best practices. To ensure...
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...
This time of the year is often a time of renewal for many. We’ve made it through the winter, recovered from the holidays, and we have our eyes firmly set on the rest of the year. At DRJ, 2017 has already been a truly outstanding year. We’ve been through a...
Did you hear that? That was time zipping by. Yes, it’s a very busy time of the year spent balancing work, family, friends, and getting ready for the holidays. So often at this time of the year we revert to tradition. We do what has always worked and most are...
A robust enterprise risk management includes mitigating and planning to respond to risks identified in business continuity, disaster recovery, information/cyber security, physical security, emergency management, and other risk management areas. Risk management is...
When a hurricane moves from “watch” to “warning,” then it’s likely you and your business only have a day or less to prepare. Part of this preparation should be laser focused on how to best save your company’s data, which is the...
When we think of disaster recovery, natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, fire, or floods often come to mind. Also at the top of our list of concerns are hardware system failures. But the fact is, most recovery efforts are a result of human...
Lamar Poppell of Jack Henry and Associates has seen a thing or two in his 20 years as a business continuity practitioner. He’s held different jobs at various companies in several states. As the years go by and his scenery changes, Lamar has also watched the...
As business continuity continues its growth as a profession, the idea of certification and the membership of professional bodies are more frequently discussed at all levels of the organization; from those starting out their career in the industry, right up to the...
One of the scariest and most damaging types of malware threats today is Ransomware, which results in encryption (locking) of valuable electronic files and the demand of paying a “ransom” fee to release them. Healthcare organizations – the keepers of...
Figure 1: The requirements of the cloud generation are more complex and difficult to meet than previous generation data centers. My colleague Jack Pouchet has been posing an interesting question lately: have data centers become so focused on driving down PUE that...
Business executives understand the risks associated with running a company and take the time to develop and implement a comprehensive risk management strategy. This strategy covers the protection of physical assets, loss of income, personnel, cyber, professional...
It’s happening right now in clandestine labs around the world: an old warehouse in an abandoned industrial park in Russia, a government-supported facility in North Korea, maybe even the basement of an unremarkable house in a working-class St. Louis...
Whether you’re the CEO, IT head, or an executive tasked with the process of maintaining business security, there will be a lot on your plate to keep you busy. Depending on the nature of your business, you may need to protect more than your own assets, data, and...
Hesston, Kansas, is the picturesque Midwestern town. Hesston is located 36 miles north of Wichita. It is very much a town like the stereotypical American small towns Norman Rockwell painted years ago. According to the 2010 census it has a population of 3,709 people....
For a couple of weeks in June, the Air Force thought it had lost 100,000 investigation records dating back to 2004. According to reports, the Air Force’s Automated Case Tracking System (ACTS) database became corrupted, and because of how the data was backed up,...
Natural and manmade disasters are occurring with alarming regularity. While news stories frequently cover damage to homes and consumers, businesses often experience greater losses, ranging from physical destruction to downtime. One major key for firms to survive in a...
DRJ Fall World 2016 brought more than 1,100 industry practitioners, speakers, and exhibitors from around the world to a new conference venue, the J.W. Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, Ariz., Sept. 18-21, 2016. Nearly 900 paid attendees took...
What is in your plan? Who developed your plan? How did you exercise your plan? Have you updated your plan? Why do you even have a plan? Have you ever used your plan? Does your plan work? These are just a few questions you and your colleagues should be asking one...
Most everyone knows that Disaster Recovery Journal publishes a world-class quarterly magazine with articles that chronicle readiness, risk mitigation, resilience, and high availability. DRJ is also recognized as the preeminent source of conferences that encourage...
One of my favorite subjects to discuss and write about is the issue of realistic testing when conducting an exercise. While the subject of this article might seem like a simple play on words, the differences and implications of each statement are quite important to...
With the increasing volume of malicious files being detected and the number of attacks growing year after year, it seems that today’s cyber attackers are winning. While cyber professionals cannot completely stop cyber attackers from trying, the damage caused can...
In September 2008, I was seated in the back of a hot, noisy Chinook helicopter flying into Helmand Province in Afghanistan. I was to take over as head of planning for the military and civilian operations for the entire province. I never envisaged that more than 400...
Purpose: The Rules & Regulations (R&R) Committee is responsible for maintaining Disaster Recovery Journal’s Rules & Regulations database (www.drj.com/resources/dr-rules-regulations.html). The DRJ R&R database is intended to provide a singular...
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