Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is the process involved in creating a system of prevention and recovery from potential threats to a company. The plan ensures that personnel and assets are protected and are able to function quickly in the event of a disaster.
Disaster Recovery (DR) is an organization’s method of regaining access and functionality to its IT infrastructure after events like a natural disaster, cyberattack, or business disruptions. A variety of DR methods are often part of a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).
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1. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning for IT Professionals
Powerful Earthquake Triggers Tsunami in Pacific. Hurricane Isaac Makes Landfall in the Gulf Coast. Wildfires Burn Hundreds of Houses and Businesses in Colorado. Tornado Touches Down in Missouri. These headlines not only have caught the attention of people around the world, they have had a significant effect on IT professionals as well. The new 2nd Edition of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for IT Professionals gives you the most up-to-date planning and risk management techniques for business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR).
2. IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies
If you have a business or a nonprofit organization, or if you’re the one responsible for information systems at such an operation, you know that disaster recovery planning is pretty vital. But it’s easy to put it off. After all, where do you start?
IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies shows you how to get started by creating a safety net while you work out the details of your major plan. The right plan will get your business back on track quickly, whether you’re hit by a tornado or a disgruntled employee with super hacking powers. Here’s how to assess the situation, develop both short-term and long-term plans, and keep your plans updated.
3. IT DR Testing made easy: The full directory for testing your IT DR
Cloud and IT DR testing can be made easy using a gradual approach. A successful test and exercise are those which become vectors for change in the organization by improving DR skills and self-confidence; improvement of routines and procedures, changing perceptions, and identifying issues in need of improvement. A test and exercise can be very useful even if the test results unsatisfactory, as it mirrors the organization’s readiness for crisis.
4. Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organizational Resilience
As an instructor, you have seen business continuity and risk management grow exponentially, offering an exciting array of career possibilities to your students. They need the tools needed to begin their careers — and to be ready for industry changes and new career paths. You cannot afford to use limited and inflexible teaching materials that might close doors or limit their options. Written with your classroom in mind, Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organizational Resilience is the flexible, modular textbook you have been seeking — combining business continuity and risk management. Full educator-designed teaching materials available for download.
5. The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected
A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill. State-of-the-art passenger jets are grounded because of a malfunctioning part. A strike halts shipments through a major port. A new digital device decimates the sales of other brands and sends established firms to the brink of bankruptcy.
6. Business Continuity Management: Global Best Practices, 4th Edition
At this critical point in your Business Continuity Management studies and research, you need one definitive, comprehensive professional textbook that will take you to the next step. In his 4th edition of Business Continuity Management: Global Best Practices, Andrew Hiles gives you a wealth of real-world analysis and advice – based on international standards and grounded in best practices — a textbook for today, a reference for your entire career. With so much to learn in this changing profession, you don’t want to risk missing out on something you’ll need later.
7. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
If you want to protect your business, you need to put in place a business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) plan to help your business survive. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, a quick guide for organisations and business managers shows you how to will keep your information safe and safeguard your company from viruses and phishing scams. It explains how to store data safely, prevent assets and business intelligence from being lost by accident, and ensure your communication links are secure and functioning when disaster strikes.
