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...

I know I wrote that ‘Recover or Resume’ was the question….but the what’s the question that supports the need to begin with? WHAT CONSTITUTES A DISASTER in the first place? This is what Phase 1 is all about in this process.  Now remember what I said, EVERY business needs to plan for this.  EVERY business will do this differently and at...

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is a process of identifying a company’s threat exposure from a multitude of angles, processes, including hard and soft asset availability during an incident.  These angles all fit into two separate overlying categories:  Internal threats and External threats.  The word ‘threat’ has become synonymous with anything that could...

We all know what an oxymoron is, adopted phrases that seem to describe something but use two diametrically opposed words to convey them, e.g., A Fine Mess, A Little Big, A New Classic, Accurate Estimate, Almost Ready, Awfully Good, Auto Pilot, About the Same, Anxious Patient, and so one. So we have a new one, Cloud Security, or is this really an oxymoron? It...

Windows 8 sure came in with a bang! Hype for miles and miles, excitement that made any ADHD sufferer seem calm and collected! What was accomplished? Is it good? Should we switch? Why doesn’t anyone seem to be using it? All I hear are complaints; so is it that hard to use? For the first time in computing history, an operating system company came up with an...