Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Bookstore Bestsellers

Facility Emergency Management DVD-based training
Facility Emergency Management is a brand new DVD-based Training Program PLUS a resource CD-ROM intended to help small and medium size organizations create facility action plans and institute emergency procedures in order to protect workers, customers, visitors and the nearby community from the effects of an incident, whether it begins inside or outside the facility. More...

NEW BOOK! Lukaszewski on Crisis Communication: What Your CEO Needs to Know about Reputation Risks and Crisis Management, by Jim Lukaszewski
A Global Grand Master and Pioneer – Who Helped Shape the Modern Discipline of Crisis Communication – Has Distilled a Career’s Worth of Knowledge and Practical Advice… to tell your CEO and advisers what they must do to preserve, protect, defend, and recover their brands, reputations, even careers. More...

NEW BOOK! The Cost of Emotions in the Workplace: Bottom Line Value of Emotional Continuity Management
Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell, a leading authority in the growing field of Emotional Continuity Management, makes a compelling business case that human emotions have a calculable, direct impact on the fiscal bottom line, and gives you powerful, practical tools to manage those costs. More...

NEW BOOK: Hiles on Business Continuity: Global Best Practices (Third Edition) by Thought Leader Andrew Hiles.
Confidently create your BCP from scratch – or improve the one you have – aided by Hiles’ wide-ranging perspective, including case studies, global standards, and hard-won insights into what works and why. More...

NEW! Easy-to-Use Template for Comprehensive Business Continuity Management to Enhance Your Organization's Resilience
Easy-to-use, comprehensive, expert, step-by-step instructions and templates – just what you’re looking for if you need a clear, actionable Business Continuity Plan More...

Emergency Management Exercises: From Response to Recovery Special
Exercises are a mainstay in the field of emergency management and business continuity planning. Although many companies conduct exercises, and the organizers may be emergency response subject matter experts, they do not excel in the discipline of designing and conducting the actual exercise – which means they simply don’t get the best results out of their effort. More...

Can you trust your backups? It’s the time of year for a spring clean

Written by Phil on April 29, 2013 in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery.

As winter turns to spring, many of us feel a need to de-clutter and clean our homes and offices. It’s a timely reminder that data can also accumulate in organisations’ IT systems and archives, making it difficult to manage and expensive to store.

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Tags: data backup, data loss, Kroll Ontrack, survey

Data Lost During Disaster Exercise May Have Exposed 800,000 People

Written by Phil on April 10, 2012 in Crisis Management and Crisis Communication, InfoSecurity, Testing.

A disaster preparedness exercise to ensure California’s child support system could be run remotely went smoothly, except for one casualty: the names, Social Security numbers and other private records of about 800,000 adults and children.

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Tags: data breach, data loss

Data Preservation: Mapping out a Reliable, Secure, and Effective Backup, Recovery & Archival (BURA) Plan for Small Business

Written by Phil on July 29, 2010 in Disaster Recovery.

In the online-all-the-time world, business literally runs on data. Data – or more specifically information culled from volumes of stored files – is the resource that drives business innovation, expansion, and profits. Absent this information, business can and sometimes does come to an abrupt halt.

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Tags: data backup, data loss, data preservation, data recovery, differential backup, full backup, incremental backup

Getting Realistic About Your Data Recovery Goals

Written by Phil on July 12, 2010 in Disaster Recovery.

A zero-byte recovery point objective system — a system that will lose zero bytes of data in a catastrophe — can be done. It’s just very expensive to put in place, and not all systems are worth the splurge.

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Tags: data loss, data recovery, Disaster Recovery, recovery point objective

Airport Insecurity: The Case of Lost Laptops

Written by Phil on February 2, 2010 in InfoSecurity.

Do you ever worry about losing your laptop computer while rushing to catch a flight at a busy airport?

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Tags: data breach, data loss, lost laptop, mobile workforce

How one lost laptop can have a giant impact

Written by Phil on December 28, 2009 in InfoSecurity.

“As the CTO of a data protection and encryption company, I hear many a tale of woe as other CTOs and CEOs confess to me the stories of how various laptops within their companies have gone astray and the destruction these lost laptops have caused in their wake. With this in mind, here is one such tale of woe, albeit fictional, that I have heard time and time again.”

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Tags: data loss, InfoSecurity

International: Loss of data and downtime cost key concerns of companies in the UAE

Written by Phil on September 2, 2009 in Disaster Recovery, survey.

The top two concerns for UAE companies are loss of data (78 per cent) and the actual cost of downtime (48 per cent) in disaster recovery, according to a survey.

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Tags: data loss, Disaster Recovery, international UNited Arab Emirates, UAE

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