Situation Overview: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized revisions to Recovery Planning Guidelines, which substantively change the scope and expectations for recovery plans.

The original Guidelines were issued on September 26, 2016, in response to the 2008 financial crisis. The OCC issued the Guidelines under the view that advance recovery planning would reduce the risk ...

The Center for Biological Diversity on Dec. 2 filed a notice of its intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to develop a national gray wolf recovery plan under the Endangered ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service now says that it won’t prepare plans for recovering the gray wolf because the agency has concluded the iconic mammal no longer requires Endangered Species Act protections ...

Disaster is never convenient. If we learned anything from the pandemic, it’s that when a crisis hits, you don’t have the luxury of planning and systematically running software. During a crisis, IT and ...

In today’s digital world, businesses constantly face cyber threats, making disaster recovery planning crucial for operational, reputational, and financial protection. In this article I will talk about ...

Establish a downtime threshold When building a disaster-recovery plan, the first objective should be to decide the recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). The RPO dictates ...