by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
Having just returned from the DRJ Fall World in beautiful San Diego, I have to tell you that I am very proud of the team that put together the PPBI Mock Disaster. This was a complex undertaking, with a ton of planning and activities behind the scenes to make it all...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
Disaster Recovery Journal had another successful show at Fall World 2012, Sept. 9-12, at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina. “It was great to so many attendees returning again after years of being away,” said DRJ President Bob Arnold. “We had another great...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
Michele L. Guido, CBCP, MBCI, is the business assurance principal for Southern Company. She is responsible for advising the business assurance program, which addresses resiliency across all facets of the company. She has worked at Southern Company since 2004. Aris:...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
One of the keys to successful and rapid disaster recovery is effective records management. In the past, the records management role was simple and non-strategic. However, today’s records managers are tasked with reducing risk in many areas, including data breaches,...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
“Mathias Thurman,” a real security manager whose name and employer has been disguised for obvious reasons, wrote in the May 21 edition of Computerworld [www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227254/Red_Alert_for_Child_Pornography] that an administrator, during a training...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
So here I am, brushing the shavings off my fresh certification. I’ve got four to six years of BC/DR experience under my belt. I have a good job as a planner-analyst that I have been working at for a while. I feel like I’m ready for a new challenge. Now what?...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
As technology’s strategic importance to the business has grown, so have the costs and risks for disruptions. Today, there is a wide range of disruptions that could take place such as an accident, a malicious attack, or many other reasons like out-of-commission...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
When you first get up in the morning, before the first cup of coffee you hear on the radio or see on television that some disaster has occurred. You express your condolences out loud and are thankful the disaster was not in your neighborhood. On the way to work you...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
In difficult times of economic crisis, business continuity management often goes by the wayside, and I don’t think it should. At first glance, it would seem that the survival of the company at the present time depends entirely on the skills of effective operational...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
Congratulations, you have worked hard to reach your current position as a senior executive, so it is only fitting that you have been handed accountability for one of the most important capabilities for the future of your organization – to build and maintain resiliency...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
The time has come for business continuity to align with the broader risk management culture of the enterprise. Business realities are challenging our traditional notions of business continuity and disaster recovery. Objectives are changing, and the business value you...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
It is really easy to lose sight of the big picture. We spend so much time participating in meetings, writing emails, building relationships, and developing/improving/tracking documentation that sometimes we need to take a step back and think about our real purpose in...
by DRJ Editorial Team | Dec 4, 2012 | Fall 2012 - Volume 25, Issue 4
It is hard to believe it is already the last quarter for Disaster Recovery Journal. Our fall edition is always a time of reflection. This has been a very busy year at DRJ and in business continuity companies in general. The economy is rebounding and budgets are...
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