A contingency plan is a backup plan, activated in the event of a disaster that disrupts a company's production and puts employees in danger. The goal of the plan is to safeguard data, minimize ...

A disaster recovery plan is like insurance—you’re glad you have it, but you hope you never need it. With automobile insurance, you pay a regular fee so that you are covered if you have an accident. In ...

Business Continuity (BC), Incident Response (IR), and Disaster Recovery (DR) are terms that may seem synonymous due to their functional similarities, but they all fall under the umbrella of ...

Contingency planning and crisis management are not conflicting concepts but instead work in tandem. Contingency planning is the process of preparing for potential emergencies, while crisis management ...

When I was 23, I worked for a SaaS tech startup with big enterprise clients. We were a relatively young company and thought we were on top of things. Then, the ice storm hit. Power went out across the ...

The cyber event in the early morning hours of July 19 gave the world a rather surprising curveball in the disaster contingency planning arena. In what is being broadly tabbed as the most impactful ...

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Search “business contingency/disaster recovery plan” and you’re likely to experience information overload, so let’s sidestep the noise and cut to the chase. Since the terms “business continuity” and ...