Risky Thinking

This site is about Risk Assessment and Risk Management, primarily in a Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery context. It is about identifying and managing the risks your organization faces so that it can continue to survive and flourish in the face of adversity.

Here you will find:

• Original articles on Risk Management and Business Continuity,
• Useful Business Continuity Resources.

You will also find information on our:

• Risk Assessment and Business Continuity Consulting Services: working with you to identify risks, perform business impact assessments, and to develop and maintain your Business Continuity and Pandemic plans.
• Risk Assessment and Business Continuity Software: to help you plan faster and more efficiently.
• Risk Assessment and Business Continuity Seminars: we want to teach you what we know.

More recent articles include:

• Of Backups and Bare Metal Restore  (23 February, 2010)
  

  Your data’s safe, isn’t it? If a disaster happened, you could simply buy new computers, restore from backups, and continue working. Or could you? Welcome to Mike’s First Rule of Real World Backups: backups don’t exist unless you test them. (Full Text)

• The 2009 Pandemic Flu: A Premature Retrospective  (7 July, 2009)
  

  We may have been lucky once again. The H1N1 / Swine flu epidemic which was first reported in Mexico in 2009 hasn't proved as deadly as early reports suggested it might be. It's influenza. It's a pandemic. It will kill a lot of people over the next three years. But it doesn't look like it will be anywhere near as deadly as the flu pandemic of 1918. It looks like it is another near miss, which means that we may have the chance to learn some lessons from the current outbreak... (Full Text)

Older articles can be found from the menu on the left.

Michael Z. Bell,
RiskyThinking.com / Albion Research Ltd.

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