Articles and essays on Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) and Business Risk Management http://www.riskythinking.com/ en Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Copyright 2013 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/article42.php Once you have your own business continuity plan in place, another way of taking business continuity to the next level is to seek to eliminate or reduce a major source of indirect risk: suppliers. Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article42.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article41.php So you have your Business Continuity Plan or Plans written and ready... What now? What should you do next? Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article41.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article40.php 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 The First Rule of Real World Backups: backups don't exist unless you test them. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article40.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article39.php 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... Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article39.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article38.php The world economic crisis is having an impact on business continuity, disaster recovery, and risk management. But there are some opportunities among the darkening clouds... Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article38.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article37.php The tragic events in Mumbai are rapidly disappearing over the world's news event horizon. Often the only positive feature of any tragedy is to ask what lessons can be learned from it. What lessons can be learned by business continuity planners from the terrorist attacks in Mumbai? Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article37.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article36.php Is your business continuity plan just gathering dust on a shelf somewhere? There are various places parts of your plan should be. Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article36.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article35.php It hasn't been a good summer for the food industry in North America, with major outbreaks of Salmonellosis and Listeriosis. What can we learn from these even if we aren't in the food industry? Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article35.php http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article34.php I was sitting in a meeting listening to a sales presentation on an Emergency Notification System. The client needed an Emergency Notification System. This wasn't what the client needed. What went wrong? Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riskythinking.com/articles/article34.php 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