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How Does My Credit Union Prepare For The May 7Th DDoS Threat?

How Does My Credit Union Prepare For The May 7Th DDoS Threat?

by Hugh Smallwood If you are getting bombarded with information about the May 7th potential cyber attacks and do not know what to do, this post is for you. Anonymous, AnonGhost, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam; you [...]

What is a Single Point of Failure?

What is a Single Point of Failure?

by Royce Yeager Have you been reviewing your DR plan, checking its robustness and trying to mitigating failure points? This post is for you. First of all, what is a single point of failure? A [...]

Top 5 “Do NOT’s” of Business Continuity

by Royce Yeager People talk a lot about what you should do with your Business Continuity Plan, but we are going to discuss what you should not do. 5. Do NOT keep your DR/BC [...]

How Will Moving to the Cloud Affect my Technology Staffing

by Kirk Drake Well, we are finally here.   The prior 12 posts in this series have covered a broad range of topics regarding credit unions moving to the cloud.  Last week we covered Credit Union [...]

The Boston Marathon – Unplanned but not Unprepared

by Robin Remines Yesterday started out like any other Monday – I made a pot of coffee and sat down to catch up on emails and prepare for a weekly conference call. While I was online, [...]

Credit Union Cloud Part 12: Migration

Credit Union Cloud Part 12: Migration

by. Kirk Drake If you have been following our Credit Union Cloud series we are getting near the end.  The last post, Credit Union Cloud Security, addressed the financial impact cloud computing will have on [...]

Top 10 Credit Union BIA Business Process

Top 10 Credit Union BIA Business Process

by. Robin Remines If you’ve completed your Business Impact Analysis (BIA)and are wondering how your top processes compare to your peers then this post is for you. We’ve performed hundreds of BIA [...]

Top Five Disaster Recovery Testing Issues

Top Five Disaster Recovery Testing Issues

By Kirk Drake If you are responsible for performing Disaster Recovery Testing for your organization or Credit Union this post is for you.   Disaster Recovery Testing is the process of simulating a recovery of your [...]

Are RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives) Misleading?

Are RTOs (Recovery Time Objectives) Misleading?

by. Robin Remines It’s been said, time is money and that certainly holds true when you’re talking down systems. Today’s consumers have a high expectation of 24x7x365 access to their accounts while [...]

Credit Union Cloud Savings

by Kirk Drake If you believe nobody could do your IT for cheaper than your team – than this post is for you.  However, if you think that spending 10 to 12% of your credit unions [...]

What Does the FFIEC Say About New Technology Projects?

What Does the FFIEC Say About New Technology Projects?

“Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal.” – Anonymous. by Robin Remines Fatal – sounds harsh you say? Considering today’s complex I.T.  infrastructures I think you’d agree that simply throwing something [...]

How Does DNS Impact My Credit Union?

By Robbie Wright DNS, or the domain name system, is a fundamental building block of the internet that is very commonly overlooked from both a management view and a security view. This is a major [...]

Credit Union Cloud Cores

by. Kirk Drake If you have been reading our prior posts on Credit Union Cloud – we have been covering a variety of educational topics regarding the infrastructure and impact of cloud computing on credit unions.  [...]