One day something large and very bad will happen in Los Angeles. That’s a given. With training and preparation, emergency managers will be ready to respond on that day. What comes next, however, is a ...

Situation Overview: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized revisions to Recovery Planning Guidelines, which substantively change the scope and expectations for recovery plans.

You likely didn’t have a go-to plan for how you and your organization would respond to a global pandemic. Most organizations don’t have a section in their strategic plans dedicated to the kind of ...

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 ...

Data is one of the most important assets for many organizations. A significant level of care should be given to prevent data security incidents. However, despite the best plans and intentions, both ...

Organizations prepare for everything from natural disasters to cyber-attacks with disaster recovery plans that detail a process to resume mission-critical functions quickly and without major losses in ...

On October 21, the OCC issued its final guidelines meant to strengthen recovery planning for large insured banks. The guidelines were a response to significant withdrawals of uninsured deposits in ...

The following is excerpted from the book, Disaster Recovery Planning: Preparing for the Unthinkable, 3rd edition, by Jon William Toigo. It is posted with permission ...