Helping you manage and control your business risks by providing expert advice and solutions in Cloud and IT Recovery Services
In 2023, cloud-based backups have become an essential part of data storage and recovery strategies for businesses of all sizes and industries. As the world continues to rely more and more on digital technology then the amount of data we produce, and ...
So, just how important is operational resilience? A recent report produced by Allianz set out their Risk Barometer for the highly regulated finance sector. From their research, they have ranked the biggest risks as: When we speak to our cu ...
Cryptocurrency is a word that has become more commonplace in conversation, especially over the last few years as the crypto market has expanded and hit the mainstream news. It all began back in 2009 with Bitcoin, and now there is estimated to be ove ...
Ransomware differs from traditional threats to information security in that the attacker’s goal is not to steal the data, but rather to prevent the victim from accessing his or her own data. In most cases, the data affected by ransomware never actua ...
This is the final stage of the Business Continuity Planning documents, by now you should have: 1. Understood your organisation’s priorities2. Captured the Current Capabilities & Core Resources3. Developed the Response & Recovery Plans4. B ...
BCP – Stage 4 – Building the Business Continuity Organisation The initial three articles of this series focused on the process of Developing Business Continuity plans. Now, we move the discussion on to how these are deployed and maintained to ens ...
In this, the third of five articles giving a detailed view into each step of the "5 Key Stages to Business Continuity Planning" we are now focusing on the Response and Recovery Plans of a BCP. These relate to the priority functions, and the specific ...
BCP – Stage 2 – Understand Current Capabilities & Core Resources During the first step of Business Continuity Plan development, we established the organisation's priorities and thresholds for disruption – based on considerations such as custo ...
This post is the first in a series of posts that provide a deep dive into each step covered in our earlier Blog, “The 5 Key Stages to Business Continuity Planning”. In this article, we are going discuss the Business Impact Analysis (BIA) process. We ...
To many people a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a ‘tick the box’ process following a well-defined formal structure, but is this the right way to do it? The answer is ‘no’. The reality is that there are several key steps involved in the developmen ...