Disaster recovery audit fail: A few lessons

In talking about disaster recovery plans (DPR), it’s best to illustrate with real-world scenarios to help you understand things better. They offer concrete examples of successes and failures, and you can learn a lot from them. Here’s an example of a DPR audit and the lessons it offers. Hosting certain types of data and managing […]

The Benefits of a Disaster Recovery Plan

According to the Institute for Business and Home Safety, an estimated 25% of businesses do not reopen after experiencing a major disaster. Yet, less than half have a business continuity plan in place. A different study by Symantec showed that many companies overestimate their preparedness — both in terms of the methods they employ to protect data and the companies they are partnered with (if anyone). The study estimated outages to cost these companies $15,000 per day on average.

Is your disaster recovery plan up to par?

No matter how much we analyze your network activity, or how many cyber-security conferences we attend, nothing educates us like the missteps of real-world businesses. Learning from example is by far the best way to beef up any disaster recovery plan (DRP), and the recent audit of a state government office gifted us plenty of […]