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 ...

Planning is an important avenue to community emergency preparedness. The practice of emergency response planning is best thought of as a process - a continuing sequence of analyses, plan development, ...

Virtualisation has revolutionised the way we deploy applications in the datacentre, and arguably that stretches to disaster recovery. Server provisioning that previously took weeks or months is ...

Q: “Disaster recovery” seems pretty self-explanatory. Is there any difference between that and “business continuity planning”? A: Disaster recovery is the process by which you resume business after a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in enterprise disaster recovery and business continuity planning in areas such as remote access, networking, SaaS applications and ransomware. Over the past year, IT ...

Hawaii County on Friday released the long-awaited Kilauea Recovery and Resilience Plan, a strategic document that will help guide the county’s recovery from the 2018 eruption of Kilauea volcano. The ...

The original Guidelines were issued on September 26, 2016, in response to the 2008 financial crisis. The OCC issued the Guidelines under the view that advance recovery planning would reduce the risk ...

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 ...

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.