The Cloud Adoption Movement: It’s already here – Is your business part of it? First post in a new series about the advantages, risks and trends about moving your technology to the Cloud By SingerLewak’s Business Risk and Technology Services team member, Rick Mark _________________________________________________________________________________ First of all, yes...

Now a big sigh of relief!  You should be proud of your accomplishments!  Phase 6 is a celebration of 5 Phases of completion, 100’s of hours of time (likely), good money spent to protect your company and resume business when disaster strikes, and ultimately, be there for your customers in times of need. So what’s on tap for Phase 6?  Now, you just...

Well, we’re now shoulder deep in planning and strategies after 4, likely very eye opening, phases.   It’s time to practice what we’ve preached and worked so very hard to accomplish to this point. To recap we’ve: Figured out what a disaster means to the company and what constitutes a disaster in the first place Aligned business...

Well now we’re rolling here.  You’ve spent the time figuring out what a disaster is for you and your company, what parts of your company will be affected and how and by which events, and you’ve now planned out and analyzed the information and come up with solutions and costs and plans to implement.  But when do we actually implement the plan?...

Now that the hard work of Phase 1 and 2 have been completed, its time to determine what the mitigating activities will be for each of the scenarios that have been defined.  Phase 3 is what the whole BCP is made of, essentially.  In this phase, all of the planning, relationship information and real analysis take place.  For each disaster scenario defined in...

Now that we know which events can put us out of business, or at least delay operations for some undetermined amount of time, it’s time to see what parts of your business are affected by each of those disasters defined in Phase 1. Now, here is where the next big level of work goes into creating your BCP.  Phase 2 deals explicitly with identifying which...