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IT Outsourcing - A Risk to Business Continuity?

By Tom Farrar

On September 15 2008, top US investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Founded in 1850, in 2007 Lehman Brothers achieved record net revenues, net income and earnings per common share for the fourth consecutive year. In less than one year Lehman Brothers saw their once record net revenue plunge to $6 billion in the red. The question isn’t how does a mammoth organisation such as Lehman Brothers find themselves in this position but, in the current climate where seemingly financially stable firms are filing for bankruptcy, who is your business safe with?

Many businesses outsource (their IT) for various reasons; cost savings, operational expertise, capacity management to name a few. Outsourcing firms also often offer other services, such as business continuity planning and disaster recovery plans. Replication between multiple data centres, redundant links, work space relocation, ISO 27001 and BS 7799 are all good, but what happens when the company providing that service ceases to trade?

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November 6th, 2008 | Posted in Business Continuity Policy, Security Policies | No Comments

Data Centre Reliability Checklist

By Amy Nutt

Planning, creating, and building a data centre can be one of the most expensive tasks an IT director can face. In order to maximize cost effectiveness and achieve optimum performance, reliability is key.

Data centre size can range from one room in an office to an entire building, but there are some basic requirements which must be implemented to ensure system reliability. When designing a data centre, efficient planning is very important. A number of areas must be addressed to ensure a dependable and efficient system which is capable of continued operation.

Understand the potential causes of failure

There are a number of areas cited as the most common causes of data centre failure:

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October 14th, 2008 | Posted in Business Continuity Policy, Disaster Recovery Policy, Security Policies | 1 Comment

Disaster Recovery Policy

The Laptop Security Blog over at www.absolute.com has an interesting post about how the Auditor General of Canada says government agencies aren’t upholding the Government Security Policy (GSP).

In particular, the Auditor General said that the security policy doesn’t include a disaster recovery plan.

Even if you work in a company you can expect that auditors are going to look for a disaster recovery policy and disaster recovery plan in your corporate security policy.

November 30th, 2007 | Posted in Business Continuity Policy, Disaster Recovery Policy, Security Policies | No Comments

Business Continuity Presentation

When you’re developing your Business Continuity Security Policy you may want to deliver a presentation to your company explaining what business continuity is all about. Here’s a Business Continuity Presentation I gave to educate a company about the need for business continuity. Feel free to use it as you like.

Topics covered in the presentation include:

  • Definitions
  • Why Have a Plan?
  • Statistics
  • Getting Your BCP Plan Started & Sold
  • Getting the BCP Approved
  • Building the BCP
  • Business Impact Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Management
  • Risk Monitoring
  • Insurance Integration
  • What Are the Cost Issues?

Enjoy!

September 16th, 2007 | Posted in Business Continuity Policy, Security Policies | No Comments