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Few Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans are perfect
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DR/BC recovery plans need to be reviewed
Janco has identified the primary reasons that DR/BC plans fail
- Few Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans are perfect
- Material error in Plan
- Plan not up to date
- Unable to find password
- Insufficient training
- Security blocked implementation
- Insufficient backup power
- Network missing / failure
- Plan did not cover ransomware attack
- Plan not documented
- Recovery priorities not identified
- Event not identified (in time)
- Recovery step not documented
DRP Best Practices
DRP Best Practices get disaster recovery and business continuity plsnning under control
- Have management communicate that disaster recovery importance
- Integrated DRP process into the organization culture
- Allocate costs associated as part of the base overhead so that costs are distributed across the entire organization
- Make disaster recovery and business continuity "mission critical"
- Establish KPI metrics for DRP
- Test the plan freequently
- Monitor how other enterprises are faring after and event occurs
- Quarterly review you media communication protocol
- Pool your assets and personnel to provide resilience capabilities for interconnected systems or collaborative technologies
- Test the back-ups (at least quarterly)
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AI and Big Data will make DR and BC more complex
Risk Assessment in the AI - MML world for DR BC will be more complex
As AI and LLM take hold enterprise's will store data than ever before - first and third party, structured and unstructured - via the cloud, Advanced companies will set themselves apart by becoming more sophisticated in their ability to store, query, derive, and stitch together insights at scale from these data.
The promise of AI and LLM is to lower cost, increase efficiency and conserve cash has increased the motivation of companies to turn to Cloud data storage and increased the appeal of alternative delivery models. The disruptive shifts in new demand and supply patterns drives changes for how IT services are bought and from whom. Cloud computing requirements need to be well defined.
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- AI and Big Data will make DR and BC more complex
Ransomware threat to DR/BC implementations
Experts Agree Ransomware is a threat to DR/BC implementations
Ransomware keeps evolving, and MegaCortex is the latest version keeping IT teams up at night.
This Adaptive Ransomware Attack (ARA) combines advanced automation with real-time human response: hackers adapt their tools and techniques on the fly to get round your defense
Security is a critical concern during the recovery process - Disaster Recovery Business Cotinuity and Security Templates
Both the Security Manual and Disaster Recovery / Business continuity templates have been updated to take into account new International compliance (GDPR) and ransomware compliance requirements.
- Ransomware threat to DR/BC implementations
Security needs to be integraded in IT Infrastructure
Security Drives Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
We are witnessing a dramatic shift and increasing reliance on the internet for services and information. With this shift comes increased risk if proper security precautions arent in place.
Employees, suppliers, associates, and customers expect you to provide the solutions they need to ensure uptime, security, and business growth.
With our Security Manual template implemented, you can dramatically grow your business while protecting them, just by integrating cybersecurity into your enterprises infrasructure, products, and services.The processes driving comprehensive disaster recovery planning and security protection are both offensive and defensive. Initially, protections are seen as exclusively defensive - protect what you have rather than help drive business into the enterprise. In reality effective security is an enabler, much like the Internet and network capability, that facilitates a company's move to the better resource deployment and improved operational performance.
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- Security needs to be integraded in IT Infrastructure