Where were you for the blackouts in August 2003? Were you one of the unfortunate 50 million people who found themselves without power for days? Was your business disrupted by the severe power failure, either directly or indirectly? If not, you were one of the lucky ones. The power outages cost businesses throughout the Eastern… Continue reading Automated Notification for Business Continuity

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article serves as a follow-up to articles published in the winter 2004 and summer 2004 editions featuring the trials and tribulations of a new BC professional. One never knows when disaster will strike. As every business continuity professional (BCP) should know, being prepared to face any type of encumbrance is the true… Continue reading When You Least Expect It …

Whether it is customer account information, financial records, operations data, or e-mail, the life blood of any business is corporate data. Data protection should not be an afterthought. Studies have shown that businesses that suffer catastrophic irrecoverable data loss typically don’t survive more than a few months much less over the long run. This growing… Continue reading Addressing the Data Protection Challenges

The regular daily backup is still the primary method most businesses use to protect their vital data and ensure their ability to resume function after a disaster. Backups protect equally well against natural disasters like a flood, earthquake or blackout, hardware malfunctions like the failure of a hard disk, and human and software errors leading… Continue reading Reduce Costly Downtime With Continuous Backup

Simulation modeling and analysis has long been a tool used to analyze complex systems and processes. Once known to have staple use in analyzing processes requiring fail-safe operation such as those found in military, aerospace, telecom and nuclear applications, computer simulation has found a new home in analyzing business operations, and in particular, business continuity… Continue reading BC Analysis Using Computer Simulation

It’s no secret network managers today must ensure the highest availability of their networks to meet overarching business challenges. This means network managers must ensure they have the tools necessary to aid them in not only managing the network but in also recovering the network when it goes down. However, network recovery really begins with… Continue reading Ounce of Prevention Equals Pound of Cure

Whether your perspective is from the national strategic level or the municipal level, the view of homeland security and emergency management has changed for the foreseeable future. The primary responsibilities of any elected or appointed public servant – or leader of a private corporation, for that matter – are to protect property and, above all,… Continue reading A Team Approach To Emergency Management

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