Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
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Resiliency is a Key Characteristic of Strong Business Continuity Plans
Are we close to living in a post COVID world? It doesn’t feel like we are there quite yet. When shutdowns in the U.S. began in early 2020, it felt like some temporary, rarely thought-about contingency plan that needed to be enacted for a short while before the world went back to normal. Who could […]
In-Person Disaster Recovery Events Return This Fall
The world has changed a lot in the last year and a half, including how we do business. On one hand, we’re all looking forward to getting back to business as usual, and on the other, we’re establishing a “new normal” brought on by lessons learned from the pandemic. One example of this is going […]
Four Ways Pandemic BC/DR Planning Helped Us Get Back to Basics
If your business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) plan was mature enough before 2020, you had probably found a good cadence of maintenance updates. Reviewing, updating, and refining your BC/DR plan to be ready for action likely included closing some gaps from exercises and plan testing, updating roles and responsibilities due to employee changes, and […]
Are Critical Communications Part of Your Disaster Recovery Plan?
This year has proved to be stressful and challenging for most businesses, and Mail-Gard is no exception. When the COVID-19 pandemic began this spring, we had the challenge of protecting our employees and finding ways to safely work together while also supporting our clients with their own challenges caused by COVID-19. We’ve all discovered a […]
Pandemic Lessons for Disaster Recovery Plans
It’s hard to believe that more than six months have passed since we had our first COVID-19 preparedness meeting. Clients began reaching out to Mail-Gard about their disaster recovery plans in late February after officials from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes […]
2020 Brings Clear Vision at DRJ Spring World
Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog in Pennsylvania, has made his annual appearance. When Phil came out of his burrow, he did not see his shadow and affirmed that spring is on the way… thanks, Phil!
Disaster Recovery Tabletop Exercises Help Close Gaps Before a Disaster
From a Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) perspective, one of the most effective means of ensuring a strong, actionable plan is to regularly conduct tabletop exercise scenarios for business continuity. A tabletop test, business continuity planning (BCP) test, or disaster recovery tabletop exercise is a scheduled event …
Going Full Circle from Planning to Practice
Autumn is always a hectic time—especially for Mail-Gard. Our team learned the latest in BC/DR at DRJ Fall 2019, and were able to help a client gear up for a big project at the same time […]
DRJ Fall 2019: Disaster Recovery Resiliency in an Uncertain World
As a long-time member of the Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) industry, Mail-Gard finds great value and an important sense of community among our BC/DR peers. One of those valuable partnerships is with the team at Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ), and we have a long history of exhibiting at their biannual conferences […]
When You Need a Disaster Recovery Expert
Who doesn’t love a big warehouse store? You enter a space filled with aisle after aisle of endless possibilities. Where else can you go to buy a month’s supply of dog food, a flat screen TV, tires for your car, and a gallon of milk—all in one easy trip? The question that comes to mind, […]
