Articles and essays on Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) and Business Risk Management http://www.riskythinking.com/ en Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Copyright 2008 Albion Research Ltd. Personal/commercial use of feed permitted provided links and credit to http://www.riskythinking.com/ preserved. http://www.riskythinking.com/images/riskythinker.gif 31 31 http://www.riskythinking.com/ 10080 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article33.php A question that is often asked when designing a disaster recovery plan is how far away a hot site or mirror site should be. Is there a simple answer? Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article33.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article32.php Recently there has been a spate of recalls involving Chinese goods. Is there something wrong with goods made in China? If you source components or products in China should you be worried? And what should you do? Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article32.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article31.php A question which confuses many people is whether a document, data, or procedure should be included in the business continuity or disaster recovery plan, or should it simply be referenced by it. As so often is the case, it's a trade-off... Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article31.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article30.php You have a main office and several branch offices. Should you have one big plan, or one for each office? Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article30.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article29.php On a forum somewhere in cyberspace, a poster lamented attending a lecture on business continuity. Her impression was that it was just backup. It isn't, but why might she have been given the wrong impression? Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article29.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article28.php In parts 1 and 2 I proposed a method of valuing a company's Business Continuity Program. Here's (possibly) where I went wrong... Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article28.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article27.php What's the connection between the death (through natural causes) of a 77 year old Indian film star and business continuity? Read on... Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article27.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article26.php In Part 1 of this article we suggested that much could be learned about the value of a Business Continuity Plan by examining the optimal strategy for a radio show's call-in game. In this second part we build upon this by answering the question "How much is a Business Continuity Plan Worth?". Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article26.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article25.php If you're in business, your email address is going to be forged. Perhaps for phishing, but more likely by spammers. What can you do? (An updated version of one our most popular articles) Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article25.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article24.php A radio station's phone-in game can give some insights into that tricky question: just how do you calculate the ROI on a Business Continuity Plan? Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article24.php