Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) has become a vital component of modern business continuity planning. Choosing the right DRaaS provider is crucial for ensuring the resilience and availability of your critical systems and data. In this blog post, we’ll explore key considerations to help you make an informed decision when selecting a DRaaS provider. […]
So far, we have covered risk identification, risk analysis, and risk controls. All these steps will be used to create a risk map. What Is a Risk Map? The risk map is the final component of risk assessment, providing a visual representation of the identified risks, their probability of occurrence, and their potential impact. It […]
In the challenging landscape of keeping your IT operations online all the time, understanding the contrasting methodologies of high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) is paramount. Here, we delve into HA and DR, the dynamic duo of application resilience. Learn what they are, some benefits and drawbacks, and the reasons why you should embrace […]
In our last post, we examined the risk analysis step of risk assessment. The third crucial step in risk assessment is risk control, which involves crafting effective strategies to mitigate the identified risks. There are four fundamental types of risk control: risk acceptance, risk mitigation, risk avoidance, and risk transfer. The Importance of Risk Control […]
The second stage of risk assessment is risk analysis, a process that delves deeper into the identified risks (see part 3-a) to gauge their likelihood and potential impact. This step provides a risk-scoring system that enables organizations to prioritize risks according to their specific risk appetite and tolerance. The Importance of Risk Analysis Risk analysis […]
Cybercriminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated, intensifying the battle against ransomware. In this high-stakes environment, data protection vendors have emerged as key allies, with innovative features to keep organizations resilient. We discuss those features in this blog, examining data protection’s crucial role in ransomware detection and how Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is delivering industry-leading […]
In the previous post of this risk management series, we covered the business impact analysis (BIA), which is a crucial step in understanding the impact of potential disruptions to critical business processes. Now, we move on to the next critical step in the process: risk assessment, and its first stage, risk identification. What Is Risk […]
Ransomware threats and cyberattacks continue to grow in frequency, severity, and sophistication. A recent study by IDC found most disaster recovery incidents in the last 12 months were triggered by ransomware and malware. The cost of executing an attack continues to fall thanks to the rise of ransomware as a service, and successful ransom payments […]
The Critical Role of Business Impact Analysis In the first part of our miniseries on risk management, we introduced the operational risk management process and outlined its different parts. This time, we are exploring one of those key parts: the business impact analysis (BIA) process. In today’s increasingly complex business landscape, organizational leaders must understand […]
Risk management describes how a business identifies, analyzes, and responds to threats and risk factors that impact its profitability, viability, and strategic goals. These threats are varied and include emergencies, natural disasters, IT and technological issues, legal and regulatory problems, and financial uncertainties. Risk management attempts to control future threats by planning preemptively and deploying […]
When disaster strikes, preparedness determines whether an organization quickly recovers or goes offline, suffering data loss and financial impact. If you want to recover from disaster well, then a disaster recovery (DR) runbook should be an indispensable part of your DR strategy. A DR runbook is a collection of recovery processes and documentation that simplifies […]
IT is filled with acronyms. From A to Zerto Virtual Manager Appliance (ZVMA), there’s no shortage of letter combinations that make up technical jargon. However, these acronyms help us quickly describe the relationship between technical functions, like two that we hear often when talking about application infrastructure: SRE and DR. Site reliability engineering (SRE) and […]
In the concluding part of our five part mini-series, we are going to put the pieces together. We’ll see how the three dimensions we consider foundational to building business resilience—operational resilience (part two), IT resilience (part three), and cyber resilience (part four)—relate to business continuity, a tangible part of business resilience in the immediate to […]
Congress passed the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) in 2014. The act was meant to improve technology implementations in federal agencies with the following core objectives: Decrease costs Improve efficiencies by streamlining purchasing Reduce duplicative spending and unused capacity The law has produced positive results, with some agencies achieving improved measurable outcomes. The […]
Guest Blog Post by Daniel Hereford, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer at SmartBank SmartBank is a full-service commercial bank which opened its first office in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee in January 2007. Exceeding $3 billion in assets, SmartBank has grown organically and through multiple acquisitions, including Progressive Savings Bank (2020), Foothills Bank (2018), Southern Community […]
Given everything that has unfolded this past year, predicting what’s next carries a lot of uncertainty. It’s clear that the pandemic and its impact on our workplaces accelerated the adoption of technologies and digital transformation in ways we couldn’t have predicted a year ago. However, we can’t stop looking ahead. With that in mind, members […]
