Tag: Disaster recovery

One post thread on Spiceworks caught my eye.  The Spicehead wanted to know what to do about passwords when it came to DR plans.  Was he supposed to put the passwords into it, or just what was he supposed to do with them.  Well, the first thing you don’t want to do is put them in the Disaster...

Part two of a Disaster Recovery process is the actual plan. You have to look at what could go wrong and either eliminate the possibility it would, or at least lower the impacts. So, if you failed to avoid the problem, you have to have a plan to meet it and deal with it. There’s a lot of really...

Mitigation (eliminating or lowering the impact of an incident) is a crucial part of any Disaster Recovery plan, as well as planning itself. I’ve always wanted to underscore the need to have this sorted out in advance, and Hurricane Sandy is the ideal place to point. Some of you will remember...

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Significant security threats emerged in 2014. Closing out this epic year with a bang is Destover, aka Wiper. Wiper, as far as security threats go, is significant. Significant enough that the FBI quietly sent a memo to businesses and government agencies advising vigilance against Wiper based...

Recently, Disaster Recovery was a topic of several blog posts.  So far we’ve identified the four pieces, and they are: • Mitigation: lessening or eliminating the impact of an event • Planning: putting together a document that will act as a script to help you get back up and...

Let’s pause for a sec and see what we’ve covered so far.  We know that there are 4 pieces to Disaster Recovery and they are Mitigation, Disaster Planning, Response, and Disaster Recovery itself.  We’ve also defined Mitigation as those steps you can take to eliminate or lessen the impact an...

I don’t care where you’re from, we can all relate to this one.  It doesn’t matter if you’re from the United States, Brazil, Russia, China, or wherever.  Someplace, somewhere,  we were chowing down on something as a child and taking huge bites and just cramming our mouths full, and our...