Business Continuity

The 5 Critical Components of Your Business Continuity Plan

The 5 Critical Components of Your Business Continuity Plan

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • December 22, 2025
  • Business

Disruptions to your operations are no longer a possibility, but an inevitability. Situations like natural disasters, major IT failures, and security breaches happen every day for businesses all over the world, and you can bet that each of them is scrambling to minimize downtime to keep their reputations and bottom lines in check. What they might not know is that...

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World Backup Day Presents an Important Reminder

World Backup Day Presents an Important Reminder

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • February 8, 2025
  • Business

Each year, on March 31st, World Backup Day serves as a dedicated reminder, bringing attention to the critical role of regular data backups in ensuring the seamless flow of information. While this awareness day effectively highlights a fundamental best practice, we strongly emphasize the need for an ongoing commitment to the continuous maintenance and safeguarding of backups, extending far beyond...

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Insurance Companies are Starting to Require Cybersecurity—What Do I Do?

Insurance Companies are Starting to Require Cybersecurity—What Do I Do?

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • March 28, 2024
  • Business

Cybersecurity is quickly becoming one of the leading risks that businesses of all shapes and sizes face. Cyberattacks are expensive, they risk your continuity, and they could even get you in hot water when it comes to compliance regulations, local and state regulations, and virtually any entity you are associated with. It might feel like this is an insurance company’s...

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You Need to Update Your Continuity Plans

You Need to Update Your Continuity Plans

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • February 28, 2024
  • Business

Business continuity is one of those things that can easily be overlooked as most businesses do whatever they can to focus on the job at hand. Unfortunately for the unprepared business, there are a lot of situations that can happen that can interrupt its ability to function optimally. Having continuity strategies in place can save organizations a lot of time...

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91% of IT Professionals Are Torn Between Security and Business Continuity

91% of IT Professionals Are Torn Between Security and Business Continuity

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • December 15, 2022
  • Business

When it comes to your business, what do you prioritize? Do you focus more on security, or do you focus more on the business continuity side of things? The reality here is that both are of critical importance. Unfortunately, however, it seems that many executives feel like the current circumstances surrounding the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have led them to prioritize...

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Work These 8 Things Into Your Business Continuity Plan

Work These 8 Things Into Your Business Continuity Plan

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • November 12, 2022
  • Business

Bad things happen. If your business fails to plan for the worst, when something terrible does happen, you could be looking at disaster. If you have a comprehensive continuity plan in place, however, you have a fighting chance. Let’s discuss some of the elements you absolutely need to address when making your business’ continuity plan.  (more…)

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Data Backup and Disaster Recovery: Connected, but Not the Same

Data Backup and Disaster Recovery: Connected, but Not the Same

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • September 2, 2022
  • Business

Data backup is a critical part of any successful business, and, because it’s so simple, it may actually be overlooked. This week, we’ll walk you through the proper steps for making sure your organization has a successful data backup solution so if a situation arises and you need it, you’ll have it ready to recover and not be exasperated to...

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Data Backup is Extremely Important. Here is Why

Data Backup is Extremely Important. Here is Why

How often do you think about your business’ future? If you are a good business owner, chances are your hopes and aspirations for the future are informing your current business practices, but if not, we have news for you. Even something as simple as a hardware failure can be enough to derail operations bad enough that you may not be...

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Positive Redundancy Protects Your Business

Positive Redundancy Protects Your Business

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • January 17, 2022
  • Business

You may have seen us use the term “redundant” on this blog often, and if you are not necessarily familiar with how it might be used in the context of business technology, we understand how you could misconstrue the word in a negative light. However, redundancy is one of the most important concepts to understand in business technology, and it’s...

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Disaster Recovery Considerations

Disaster Recovery Considerations

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • January 13, 2022
  • Business

The Novel Coronavirus has made its way around the world and it has certainly changed the way a lot of businesses do things. Some businesses have put in some type of disaster recovery platform. This is basically a plan for returning to continuity after some type of disaster, but we are seeing that many business continuity plans were not broad...

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