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• Words to go: Disaster recovery planning checklist

  Working on a disaster recovery plan? Don't forget to include these vital tests, exercises, plans and assessments when preparing for a disruptive event. Continue Reading

• How has ransomware recovery changed in recent years?

  The threat of ransomware has evolved over the past few years, causing many organizations to re-examine how they plan to recover data in the event of an attack. Continue Reading

• Conduct a business impact analysis with these tips and tools

  A business impact analysis is a fairly standard part of disaster recovery planning, but nuances within your organization may affect your approach to conducting and using a BIA. Continue Reading

• Can your disaster recovery strategy keep up?

  Disaster recovery requirements are constantly changing, and a DR plan must do the same. Frequent testing and clear communication can go a long way toward keeping a plan up to date. Continue Reading

• Secure disaster recovery will be a priority in 2019

  Along with weather events and IT outages, data security has become a major concern in DR. With cyberattacks on the rise, strategists are placing higher importance on resilience. Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery strategy guidelines: Preparation and response

  A disaster recovery and response plan should be unique to each organization, but there are universal best practices that can facilitate rapid and comprehensive incident response.Continue Reading

• How to ensure a secure disaster recovery operation

  As if recovering from a disaster isn't pressing enough, organizations also need to be mindful of potential security breaches when they are most vulnerable.Continue Reading

• BC/DR plan template: How to prepare for an active shooter event

  A standard BC/DR template typically covers weather, equipment failures and fires. In recent years, more organizations are naming active shooting scenarios as a BC/DR concern.Continue Reading

• Focus more on disaster recovery strategy in 2019

  Evolving disaster recovery technologies have eased some of the common DR burdens over the past year, but strategic areas such as funding and security could use some more attention.Continue Reading

• Essential guide to business continuity and disaster recovery plans

  Not confident in your BC/DR plans? You're not alone. Nearly every organization struggles with comprehensive BC/DR planning that covers all potential threats and setbacks.Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery planning tools: Predictive analytics for DR

  Today, predictive analytics and AI are fully realized disaster recovery tools. In the unpredictable world of DR, predictive analytics is a particularly powerful technology.Continue Reading

• 10 steps for optimal IT disaster recovery plan design

  Have you ensured your disaster recovery planning is comprehensive and able to be understood by everyone involved? Our guidelines will help set you on the right path.Continue Reading

• Successful IT resiliency strategy based on high availability and DR

  Stringent yet realistic RTOs and RPOs are crucial to resiliency plans aiming to minimize interruptions to businesses operations should disaster or disruptions strike IT resources.Continue Reading

• IBM manager: Cyber-resilience strategy part of business continuity

  Cyber resilience is increasingly a must for company executives. IBM's Andrea Sayles details the latest threats, as well as best practices for how to be prepared for attacks.Continue Reading

• How to create an emergency phone tree and template

  When disaster strikes an organization, employees must be alerted. Using a call tree in emergency situations is a time-tested way to effectively communicate events and next steps.Continue Reading

• 5 crucial multi-cloud disaster recovery principles

  A multi-cloud DR plan looks different for every organization, based on its needs. However, there are five universal precepts that can be applied to most multi-cloud strategies.Continue Reading

• What 5 skills should a disaster recovery team leader have?

  Is the right person in charge of your disaster recovery planning? Look for a DR team leader who has the knowledge to run the show and the accessibility needed from a good manager.Continue Reading

• Malware response plan recovers data in 6 steps

  Responding to and recovering from malware is a complex process that requires significant preparation. With a response plan in place, you can be ready to prevent a malware disaster.Continue Reading

• Highlight these 4 areas in your malware incident response plan

  The malware threat is on the rise, and recovery is no simple process. When planning a malware response, it's vital to get down specifics and eliminate unknown factors.Continue Reading

• Recovering from ransomware: Defend your data with best practices

  What does it take to recover from a ransomware attack? In most cases, it's planning, testing and resources. Is your organization prepared for the worst?Continue Reading

• With a data recovery plan, take advantage of all resources

  Data security and data recovery have a lot in common, and both can cause a lot of strife if not handled properly. Are you using every disaster recovery resource available to you?Continue Reading

• Five tips for disaster recovery insurance and funding

  Having a complete disaster recovery plan is essential. So is having DR insurance and the money available to fund the recovery. These steps will help you succeed with the latter.Continue Reading

• Which modern disaster recovery tool is often overlooked?

  When crafting a DR strategy, there are a number of useful tools available. To avoid missing out on some serious benefits, make sure you take a look at all available options.Continue Reading

• Best practices for social media and business resilience

  Solid business continuity and resilience depend on a thorough examination and update of company social media policies. Otherwise, you may have a disaster on your hands.Continue Reading

• Consider multi-cloud disaster recovery for added protection

  Using multiple clouds in your disaster recovery strategy may be more difficult to implement, but it will also give your cloud plan an added level of reliability.Continue Reading

• Test your ransomware recovery plan to safeguard data

  Testing your restore process prior to an attack is a major part of surviving a ransomware infection. Reduce recovery time and ensure data is secure with planning and preparation.Continue Reading

• What to do when a BC/DR plan goes awry

  Insufficient testing or not knowing what to expect could result in a failed business continuity plan. Luckily, there are steps you can take if your BC/DR planning goes belly up.Continue Reading

• Want IT resiliency? Look to both security and disaster recovery

  Security, protection from hackers and ransomware, disaster preparedness and disaster recovery are all means to the goal of resilient IT infrastructure and business processes.Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery for cloud computing: Burning questions

  Disaster recovery is a delicate, vital process that every organization needs to consider. With the rise of cloud computing, is cloud disaster recovery a viable option?Continue Reading

• Don't let your BC/DR plan get lost in the shuffle

  How can you maintain consistency in your BC/DR strategy in a world of constantly evolving technology? If it's a reactive part of IT, you're already behind.Continue Reading

• Converged backup and recovery strategies offer efficiency, reliability

  Are you confident in your backup and recovery strategy? Make sure you have locked down the speed, testing and security of both processes to recover data appropriately.Continue Reading

• Cloud data recovery challenges and how to overcome them

  For an organization with a short recovery time objective, what makes a good cloud DR strategy? Availability, along with strong security, is a must-have.Continue Reading

• Create your best GRC program with business continuity and DR

  Any governance, risk management and compliance program should work with an organization's business continuity process. There are challenges to consider, though.Continue Reading

• Data center disaster recovery plan template and guide

  Read our guide on data center DR planning, and then download our free template to assess how your data center facility and its infrastructure would perform during a disaster.Continue Reading

• Free business continuity policy template

  A business continuity plan can help organizations of any size prepare for a disaster. Resiliency, recovery and contingency planning are key elements to get systems up and running.Continue Reading

• Protection against ransomware takes flight with canary files

  As ransomware attackers get smarter, it's important for data protection systems to step up their game. Canary files and infection detection are a good start.Continue Reading

• How do I design and initiate a call tree procedure?

  A call tree can be an important piece of disaster recovery planning. Follow these steps for call tree design and execution to ensure your company is ready for unplanned events.Continue Reading

• Risk assessment analysis and BIA data in BC plans

  Examine how BIA and RA data are used to formulate business continuity strategies. It's common to bypass these steps, but the data can result in more precise and focused BC plans.Continue Reading

• Use business continuity to boost your corporate governance process

  Business continuity planning can round out a corporate governance plan by identifying potential areas of failure and how to survive them.Continue Reading

• Speed Hyper-V replication process by seeding replica VM

  Hyper-V replication lets IT create secondary, offline virtual machines that can be used to recover operations following an outage of the primary VM.Continue Reading

• What are some common VMware High Availability configuration errors?

  What are the most common mistakes people make when configuring VMware High Availability?Continue Reading

• 10 mistakes to avoid in your disaster recovery planning process

  Don't make your DR planning process harder than it is by trying to do too much or cutting corners. Careful planning is key to a successful recovery.Continue Reading

• Building an incident response plan

  Learn how incident response plans offer a starting point for responding to a situation and then deciding how to proceed in this tip from Paul Kirvan.Continue Reading

• The importance of cloud recovery testing

  Brien Posey explains why it is extremely important to perform cloud recovery testing that simulates a real recovery following a catastrophe.Continue Reading

• Business impact analysis questionnaire template

  Download our free business impact analysis questionnaire template we've created to help you jumpstart your BIA process.Continue Reading

• Bulletproof your disaster recovery planning process

  Learn how to bulletproof your disaster recovery planning process with this free guide.Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery security: The importance of addressing data security issues in DR plans

  Data security issues have a constant presence in the IT industry and should be addressed in DR plans. It's not enough for storage managers to only cover basic security measures.Continue Reading

• Disaster recovery planning for your help desk: A help desk template

  The help desk is a vital part of IT operations, but it's often not included in disaster recovery plans. Download our help desk template for DR planning.Continue Reading

• Top 10 IT disaster recovery tips of 2010

  To help alleviate the problems that often arise with disaster recovery (DR) planning and testing, we've compiled our top 10 DR tips from 2010. Learn about cloud disaster recovery, DR maturity levels and more.Continue Reading

• A free disaster recovery template for conducting a physical assessment of your DR facilities

  Download our free disaster recovery template to learn how to conduct a physical assessment of your disaster recovery facilities.Continue Reading

• Due diligence on a disaster recovery plan enables business continuity

  Creating an effective disaster recovery plan is essential to business continuity, regardless of ambiguity around IT controls for data protection.Continue Reading

• Local area network disaster recovery tutorial: Redundant power systems and planning key for LAN DR

  Avoid or mitigate common local area network (LAN) disasters by identifying likely failure points, building redundant systems, and stocking replacement equipment. Here's what you need in a LAN disaster recovery plan.Continue Reading

• VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager disaster recovery best practices

  In this tutorial on SRM disaster recovery best practices, learn what you need in place to use SRM, how to test and execute your DR plans and if SRM is a good fit for your DR strategy.Continue Reading

• What's the difference between a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan?

  Kevin Beaver describes the difference between disaster recovery and business continuity planning in this ask the expert response.Continue Reading

• Change management in disaster recovery and business continuity planning

  Change management is an important process for business continuity and disaster recovery planning for several reasons. Learn about change management best practices and its role in BC/DR planning.Continue Reading

• Data center emergency power strategies in disaster recovery planning

  Despite all the precautions you can take to provide uninterrupted power to your data center, situations can occur that threaten your center's continued operations. Learn about emergency power strategies in disaster recovery planning.Continue Reading

• Risk management for disaster recovery planning

  Disaster recovery (DR) planning is typically driven by risk management. This tip focuses on mitigating some of the risks associated with data and storage.Continue Reading

• Including employees in your disaster recovery plan

  To really ensure business continuity, organizations need to protect and support employees while continuing to manage the business. This tip examines key issues that are affecting employees in business continuity and disaster recovery situations.Continue Reading

• Top disaster recovery tips for protecting your VoIP systems

  Voice over IP (VoIP) technology is the principal technology for supporting converged or unified communications. This tip discusses how converging voice and data in an all-IP environment gives businesses cost-effective and flexible solutions that ...Continue Reading