Developing strategies for business growth is a cornerstone of the modern organisation. Developing strategies to help avoid business loss is just as important, which means business continuity plans are critical. These documents provide detailed plans on how to keep essential operations running during an emergency in order to minimise losses. Some organisations call these documents “disaster recovery plans.” Others use …
2014 was completely disastrous from a security point of view for companies and people alike. Apple’s iCloud breach saw private celebrity photos leaked, the most memorable security breach of 2014 was Sony Pictures who was thanks to a breach in Apple’s iCloud, Sony Pictures was the victim of it all but crippled the company and the public at large found itself …
Last week South Africa experienced its worst load shedding since 2008 with R200m worth of lost revenue and damages to the country and businesses. Fortunately no one was killed or badly injured but more than 800 000 businesses were without power and most parts of the country looked more like a dead ghost town than a commercial area. With Generators catching fire and IT hardware becoming corrupt, a disaster recovery plan …