Windows 7 Viking Funeral Databarracks 2020-01-13 | After 10 years, support for Windows 7 ends on 14 January 2020We wanted to give it an honourable send off.
Managing Cyber Incidents: A People Centric Approach Databarracks 2025-06-26 | Cyber incidents aren’t just technical—they’re personal.Most response plans focus on systems, not the people under pressure to fix them.Charlie Maclean-Bristol presents a practical webinar on managing the human side of cyber crises. This webinar showcases how to create incident plans that protect your organisation and the people involved in the response.In this session, we cover:- Planning for people: Avoiding burnout in long-term incidents- Company culture: How workplace culture shapes crisis response.- Manual workarounds: Keeping services running without your technology- Mistakes happen: Managing the aftermath with empathy and professionalismDownload the slides: https://shorturl.at/fJft5
Cyber Recovery Wargame - Barbican Databarracks 2025-06-19 | Last week, The Barbican Centre was the setting for Databarracks’ first Cyber Recovery Wargame of 2025: Defending Deepfakes & Disinformation, sponsored by Commvault.Continuity and Resilience leaders from a broad range of sectors came together to test their cyber recovery strategies and intuitions in a highly interactive scenario designed and led by Databarracks’ Director of Resilience, Chris Butler.
How to Communicate During a Cyber Attack Databarracks 2025-02-05 | 0:00 Introduction5:12 Overview of cyber attacks17:25 Communications recommendations34:00 QuestionsWhen a cyber attack strikes, it’s not just your systems under fire — it’s your reputation, stakeholder trust, and even your legal compliance. Is your organisation ready to respond?Watch Charlie Maclean-Bristol present a webinar on: How to Communicate During a Cyber Attack, and learn how to craft crisis communications that protect your reputation and ensure your stakeholders remain informed and confident.The webinar covers: - The cyber risk landscape and the events you need to prepare for - Communications strategy: statutory requirements and prewritten crisis comms - How to develop and exercise your cyber response plan
Jump Start - Secure, fast recovery from cyber attacks in the cloud Databarracks 2024-12-06 | Recovering quickly from a cyber incident demands a recovery environment that is clean, isolated and unaffected by the breach.Databarracks’ award winning Jump-Start was developed to solve that problem with automated, secure cloud-recovery.Jump-Start deploys a pre-prepared, cloud-based recovery landing zone. Using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), your organisation’s resources, networking, security, and governance are activated in minutes.Join the webinar on Wednesday 4th December at 2pm to discover:- Why we built Jump-Start- How it works- Product demonstration
Databarracks | Cyber Recovery Wargame - Manchester Databarracks 2024-12-06 | Cyber Recovery Wargame - IWM North, Manchester - 14th NovemberThe day combined an interactive exercise with expert training to demonstrate cyber resilience best practice, including:- The latest cyber threats and an overview of the risk landscape- How to co-ordinate multiple teams, both internal and external, in the response to a cyber attack- Crisis communications – how to keep your stakeholders happy- The technical and operational considerations to help you recover your businessWatch the highlights of Databarracks Cyber Recovery Wargame, where attendees learned how to prepare them and their team to deliver an exceptional response to disaster.
Databarracks | Cyber Recovery Wargame - London Databarracks 2024-11-07 | Cyber Recovery Wargame - 19th June, Tate ModernFor senior executives, successfully managing a major cyber attack relies on your ability to minimise operational downtime, revenue loss and reputational damage. The approach you take to recovery is the ultimate test for your Resilience, Business Continuity, Cyber Security and IT teams. Our masterclass helps prepare your organisation to deliver an exceptional crisis response.
Cyber Disaster Recovery with Zerto and Databarracks Databarracks 2024-09-12 | Adapt & Protect: Navigating the hypervisor landscape and cyber threats.We are in the midst of a rapidly changing hypervisor landscape and experiencing a huge rise in cyber threats. Organisations must be able to adapt & protect to ensure availability and efficiency in their IT environments. In this webinar:- Our experts will share their experiences in the hypervisor landscape and what that could mean for you and your organisation.- We delve into the ever increasing complexities of cyber threats and how to mitigate against them. - Learn about the latest technology powering Zerto and how Zerto & Databarracks combine forces to provide industry leading disaster recovery and cyber resilience services.
How to run a tabletop Business Continuity exercise Databarracks 2024-07-16 | Are you confident your Business Continuity Plan is ready for anything?A ‘tabletop exercise’ is when you bring together the key Business Continuity team members in a room, throw a scenario at them and then use your plan to guide the response.It requires less time and resource than the full Business Continuity Plan Exercise, which means you can test the plan against multiple scenarios.Watch the webinar to learn:- What a tabletop exercise is and its benefits for BC planning- How to structure and facilitate a successful exercise- Methods to identify strengths and weaknesses in your plan- How to leverage post-exercise reports for continuous improvementDownload the slides: slideshare.net/slideshow/how-to-run-a-tabletop-business-continuity-exercise-pdf/270277481
Databarracks acquires PlanB Consulting Databarracks 2024-05-15 | Databarracks, the technology and business resilience specialist has acquired Glasgow based PlanB Consulting to enhance its Operational Resilience and Cyber Continuity consulting practice.
How to write a Business Continuity Plan Databarracks 2024-04-16 | According to our 2023 Data Health Check, less than half of organisations have an up to date Business Continuity Plan. But creating a plan isn't hard, and we will show you the proven methods to deliver something practical and usable.Listen to the webinar and learn how to:- Identify your risks and create mitigation strategies- Create your Business Impact Analysis- Find the right people for an effective crisis team- Accurately identify the scope of continuity projects- Make testing and exercising more frequent, productive and frictionless
How to write an effective Cyber Incident Response Plan Databarracks 2024-02-21 | Set the standard for dealing with cyber incidents at your organisation.What to include & what to pre-prepareManaging and maintaining the planIdentifying a cyber incidentIsolating & safely bringing systems back online
Lessons from 100+ Ransomware Recoveries Databarracks 2023-08-14 | In this session, Databarracks share lessons learned recovering from complex cyber attacks. These are real-life lessons, learned the hard way.Agenda:• The evolution of ransomware attacks• 5 specific recovery stories that outline different recovery approaches• The timeline of an attack• The key lessons to improve your cyber resilience
Ransomware Recovery Masterclass Databarracks 2023-08-03 | 21st June | Tower of LondonConfidently managing a major cyber incident has quickly become a vital requirement of senior executives. Organisations require the skills to minimise revenue loss, reputation damage and the impact on business operations.Responding to a ransomware incident is the ultimate test of Resilience, Business Continuity, Cyber Security and IT Teams. We ran the event to help prepare organisations to deliver an exceptional response to ransomware through best practices and real-world recovery scenarios.
What is the difference between BC and Resilience? Databarracks 2023-05-03 | Do you question where the overlap is between Business Continuity and Resilience, or which one takes precedence? Chris Butler, discusses the difference between the two and how each has their own place in an organisation.
What is good Crisis Management? Databarracks 2023-05-03 | Chris Butler, Databarrack Resilience Director, outlines the key factors related to, as well as the process to deliver, good Crisis Management.
Whats the difference between a Crisis and an Incident? Databarracks 2023-05-03 | What are the differences between a Crisis and an Incident, and how do you identify which one you are experiencing? Chris Butler, Databarracks Resilience Director, outlines this as how your organisation should respond.
How to write an IT Disaster Recovery Plan Databarracks 2023-03-21 | The written plan is the most important part of any disaster recovery solution. Yes, the recovery software is crucial, the failover environment must be stable and your connectivity must be reliable, but these are just components. Without a plan they’re useless. Having a well-designed and thoroughly tested plan in place will substantially increase your ability to withstand, and recover from, disruption. We’re going to share with you the methods, exercises, tools and expertise needed to create a plan that works when you need it most. • Assessing your risks and creating a Business Impact Analysis• Setting realistic recovery objectives • Making incident response plans that work• How to communicate in a disasterDownload the slides: slideshare.net/slideshow/how-to-write-an-it-disaster-recovery-plan-256749390/256749390
How to choose the right DR architecture for Zerto Databarracks 2022-10-18 | DR used to be inflexible. You bought exact replicas of all your infrastructure, had it in two places and replicated between it.Not anymore. There are multiple ways to deploy Zerto depending on your hypervisor, your sites, and your preferences.Chris Rogers, Technology Evangelist from Zerto shows the pros and cons of each approach and how to choose the right architecture for you.• Building your own data centre for DR (VMware or Hyper-V)• DRaaS (self-service or fully managed)• DR into the public cloud (Microsoft Azure or AWS)
Future proof data protection with Commvault Databarracks 2022-03-29 | How do you guarantee you can recover from ransomware?How can you use object storage to lower backup costs, even as data grows? How do you protect data spread across SaaS applications, on-prem data centres and the public cloud?Marc Lucas from Commvault explains how Commvault future-proofs data protection.
How to make your supply chain resilient Databarracks 2022-01-27 | In Business Continuity, your most difficult challenge is making your supply chain resilient.A cyber attack on a supplier or a shortage of stock can immediately impact your operations but is much harder to resolve.We're sharing our Toolkit to let you measure, track and improve your supply chain resilience.Download the toolkit here: databarracks.com/resources/supplier-continuity-toolkit
How to recover from ransomware - Lessons from real recoveries Databarracks 2021-11-25 | It’s hard to overstate the magnitude of a ransomware attack. Ransomware incidents are incredibly complex. They take days, weeks and sometimes months to resolve. There is a huge additional burden on the IT team to co-ordinate, feed information to relevant parties and restore systems.We share our experience across multiple ransomware recoveries over the last year.
How to decommission a data centre Databarracks 2021-07-21 | There are lots of reasons to decommission a data centre. Perhaps you’re closing down an office? Or saving money by outsourcing your Disaster Recovery? Maybe your hardware is reaching end-of-life and you’re moving to the cloud?But It’s not an easy project. It can take longer than expected, eating into cost-savings and brings an increased risk of service-interruption.Key takeaways:• A checklist for Discovery, Implementation and Disposal stages• Creating an accurate budget and timetable• Choosing between a phased or ‘big bang’ approach
Buying-in: How the best practitioners engage the business and embed BC Databarracks 2021-05-19 | For the last 6 years, The BCPcast has been interviewing the top BC practitioners and thought leaders. Amidst the stories of incidents and recoveries, a topic that features in every discussion is engagement. We’re going to share the best lessons and tips for engaging organisations from the shop floor to the board room.
Ransomware - how does it work and how can you stop it? Databarracks 2021-05-11 | Ransomware has emerged as a major cyber threat. It paralyses the systems of individuals, companies, and governments unless ransoms of hundreds or even millions of dollars are paid. How is it installed, how do you stop it and why has it suddenly become such a massive threat?
Disaster Recovery to the public cloud - Recovering in Azure and AWS with Zerto Databarracks 2021-03-23 | Disaster Recovery is a perfect candidate for the public cloud. You can eliminate redundant hardware and only pay for cloud resources when you need them.Here's how it works in Azure and AWS – and the differences to traditional site-to-site replication.
Why Backup as a Service? Databarracks 2020-11-03 | Backup as a Service recovers data quickly and without disruption.Losing data happens all the time - it’s a fact of life.Thousands of people rely on your data, from colleagues to customers and everyone in-between. Losing it is an effective way to bring a business to its knees. Backup as a Service makes sure that doesn’t happen.Find out more: databarracks.com/services/backup-as-a-service
Why Disaster Recovery as a Service? Databarracks 2020-11-03 | Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) combines the best of cloud computing and expert support.We all face a growing need for systems-uptime. Customers, suppliers, partners and regulators expect and demand it.Extended downtime is no longer a minor embarrassment – it can significantly damage your reputation and translates directly to lost revenue.Disaster Recovery as a Service makes it a thing of the past.Find out more: databarracks.com/services/disaster-recovery-as-a-service
Hindsight 20/20: Recovering from Disasters in Legal Databarracks 2020-10-29 | You’ll never be more prepared for a disaster than immediately after a crisis. You’ve learned the hard lessons and know exactly what it takes to keep your firm operational.But you don’t want to suffer every incident just to prepare. We spoke to four people who’ve been through it and learned the lessons for you:Tom Booton from The Law Society will be shares his experience dealing with the fire at its historic site in Chancery LaneJulie Goddard discusses managing a flood at the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s office in Birmingham Martin Pill will share his experience of dealing with a major cyber incident for a BSI customerKatherine Corbishley explains the preparations and response to COVID-19 from the perspective of a large, international corporate law firm.
Backup & Migrate to Azure with Commvault Databarracks 2020-10-01 | The COVID-19 crisis has changed how we use technology to keep our businesses productive.Your digital transformation is happening with Microsoft Azure. Protect and manage all that cloud data with Commvault — and deliver key business applications faster, better.Whether you need to back up on-premises IT into Azure, migrate workloads into the cloud or protect Office 365 data, Commvault has the most comprehensive feature-set.
Webinar - Zerto in Azure: Technical deep dive Databarracks 2020-06-18 | Our guest presenter Chris Rogers from Zerto gives a technical overview of Zerto in Azure and answers your questions
The BCPcast Live - COVID 19 Response Databarracks 2020-05-14 | COVID-19 is the biggest continuity incident of our time.So we gathered together some of our favourite Business Continuity Podcast guests to review and unpack the business response to Coronavirus.Where to listen and subscribe:Website: thebcpcast.comApple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-bcpcast/id1113990524Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/21EKsL1AhRiJP7ocToCMtRStitcher: stitcher.com/podcast/the-bcpcast
Webinar - Pandemic Response: how to continue and thrive Databarracks 2020-04-02 | For most organisations, an extended outage is something that lasts up to 14 days.But what happens when a crisis goes on much longer?Now we are settling in to working from home, there's time to think about what comes next: Dealing with IT failures remotely Assessing supplier risk Critical actions that can only be carried out in-person Key-staff dependency and managing significant absence Exposure to customer bankruptcyThese are the fundamentals of good Business Continuity Planning but even comprehensive plans now need to be reviewed and adapted.
Webinar - Coronavirus & Pandemic Planning: Ask the Experts Databarracks 2020-03-13 | We put your Coronavirus questions to our panel of Business Continuity experts. Hear from the people who managed SARS, Avian and Swine Flu responses for large UK businesses. Find out what can be learned from those incidents and what actions you need to take now.
What is Business Continuity as a Service? Databarracks 2020-03-04 | Business Continuity as a Service is different from most point in-time continuity activities.Most traditional BC plans don’t stay relevant for long after creation. They’rebuilt once and left to stagnate until the next review cycle. Our unique framework aligns our continuity experts with your business to constantly monitor, assess and update plans accordingly.That means any changes in your business are always reflected inyour ability to respond. Resilience against disruption is a muscle to be exercised, not a finish line to reach. Your ability to withstand and recover from potential downtime must be rehearsed, evaluated, and improved upon on a continual basis. Find out more: databarracks.com/services/business-continuity-as-a-service
Does cardboard furniture work for Disaster Recovery? Databarracks 2019-11-15 | We think cardboard furniture has potential for DR. So, we took the liberty of testing it as a short term solution.We bought, assembled and tested a set of flat pack desks and chairs. Then we put them through the daily rigours of office life for one month.
Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery Databarracks 2019-09-24 | What is the difference between a Business Continuity and a Disaster Recovery (or even IT DR) plan?
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) vs Recovery Time Objective (RTO) Databarracks 2019-09-24 | What is the difference between a Recovery Point Objective and Recovery Time Objective
How to do Disaster Recovery on a budget Databarracks 2019-09-06 | There’s a misconception that Disaster Recovery is expensive. That’s not the case. Let’s look at a disaster and see how we can recover on a budget.
How to know when combined Backup and Replication is for you Databarracks 2019-07-18 | Why would anyone want to use two different products for backup and DR instead of one? You wouldn’t. If a single product reduces your IT complexity, you’re taking it, right? Vendors have always combined backup and replication, taking various approaches to deliver backup and DR in one product. This webinar shows you the pros and cons of each approach. And you’ll get recommendations to fit each use case.
How to write an effective cyber incident response plan Databarracks 2019-04-30 | Set the standard for dealing with cyber incidents at your organisation.What to include & what to pre-prepareManaging and maintaining the planIdentifying a cyber incidentIsolating & safely bringing systems back online
WEBINAR - Introducing Rubrik: A new approach to data protection Databarracks 2019-02-26 | Find out about the innovative technology behind the headlines and how Rubrik can solve your backup, replication and archive challenges.
The Business Continuity Podcast - The Suet Pudding Incident Databarracks 2019-01-15 | Ever wondered how suet pudding could bring one of the UK’s busiest trading floors to a grinding halt? Or why there used to be a caterpillar in the London Risk Register?Databarracks' Business Continuity Podcast is a straightforward, jargon-free discussion with people who deal with disasters for a living.Listen to The BCPcast:http://www.thebcpcast.com On iTunes: itunes.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-bcpcast/id1113990524?mt=2On Soundcloud: http://www.thebcpcast.com
How to invoke Disaster Recovery Databarracks 2018-10-25 | Invoking Disaster Recovery isn’t as easy as some might have us believe. In fact, it’s probably one of the most intensely scrutinised and difficult times for any IT professional.
How to set up Disaster Recovery Databarracks 2018-08-02 | There are two big considerations you need to tackle – one is dealing with the human and operational factors. The other is the nuances of the technology setup. Step-by-step guide to setupServer dependencies and setting recovery priorityPlanning for connectivity issuesTesting and matching performance on the DR environmentCompleting the project and the move to Business as Usual operations
DRaaS to Azure with Zerto Databarracks 2018-02-28 | Microsoft Azure has become the default option for anyone migrating from on-site data centres to the cloud. It’s an obvious choice. Most IT departments are familiar and skilled with the Microsoft toolset, so for back-office systems it just makes sense. The question is, where to start? Setting up disaster recovery to Azure is a logical, low-risk first step. Profit from tricks on how to achieve a better TCO by using Azure for DRaaS: Replicating both VMware and Hyper-V environments Setting up the ZCA (Zerto Cloud Appliance) in Azure Connecting the ZVM (Zerto Virtual Manager) to your vCenter Using Blob storage for replica disks and journals Failing-over into Azure and failing-backQ&A: databarracks.com/blog/draas-to-azure-with-zerto-qa-from-the-webinar
The Databarracks Continuity Toolshed: free tools for better recoveries Databarracks 2017-11-29 | Over the past 3 years, we’ve been developing practical tools that take the heavy lifting out of in-depth continuity planning, making it faster and more approachable to newcomers.But there’s an important caveat. Shiny, interactive tools can trick you into feeling productive by outputting important-looking information. Without a plan, instructions, or good data, they’re not useful.That’s what The Recovery Toolshed: free tools for better recoveries is all about.Explaining how Databarracks range of free recovery tools combine to output meaningful metrics and useful information that can be practically applied to great continuity planning.
How to write a business continuity plan Databarracks 2017-11-02 | Business continuity has a PR problem. From the outside, it seems boring, difficult, and not a priority. According to our 2017 Data Health Check, less than half of organisations with small IT teams (1-5) have a BC plan.The thing is, it’s never been easier.Continuity today is a mature area of study. There are established best practices and proven processes that do most of the heavy lifting for you.
Supply Chain Risks - John Robinson Databarracks 2017-09-12 | The reason the supply chain risk is so important is that you inherit all of the risks of your supply chain.
How to Quantify Reputation Loss - John Robinson Databarracks 2017-09-12 | Quantifying the impact and cost of reputational damage after a disaster is hard. Many DR professionals shy away from it. But not Managing Director of INONI, John Robinson.By applying multipliers to existing costs and factoring in things like the costs of failing to meet regulatory obligations, John applies a solid formula to a notoriously nebulous topic.
