The main aim of IT disaster recovery planing is to generate a detailed recovery plan that can be executed upon in the case of an unforeseen outage. Such a plan should set out the detailed steps needed ...

Recovery planning is perhaps the last plan to be developed in many an emergency management organizations. We can be captivated by response planning, and if you want pre-disaster mitigation funding, ...

The previous articles in this series have offered guidance on how to create IT disaster recovery (DR) plans for cloud environments and implement them. In this final article, we look at maintaining the ...

I've often said that for emergency managers, recovery planning is the bridge still not crossed. Most agencies have not delved extensively into recovery planning for the community — that goes beyond ...

This article explores the purpose and scope of DRPs, BCPs, and IRPs, their differences, and how they complement each other. It also provides actionable insight into the role in-house counsel can play ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A seasoned construction professional dispatched in response to Hurricane Katrina, Randy Rapp found out fast that a disaster recovery job presents special challenges, with time ...

When a discussion turns to disaster recovery and business continuity planning (BCP), the talk of IT staff quickly turns to ensuring that system and service availability is raised “to five nines” — an ...

Those words were spoken by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II. They are just as true now, especially where natural disasters are concerned. “Think of getting hit by a disaster as taking a ...