When you see as many disaster recoveries (live and test) as Ongoing Operations does – it is hard not to notice trends in what “works” and what “doesn’t work”. Our review of the most successful [...]
Our friend Brad Powell at Axiaware hit the nail on the head with this post – with his permission, we’re reposting it here ! (To see the original, follow this link) Leaders at banks and credit [...]
When Ongoing Operations got started, we were a collaborative project by 7 Washington DC area credit unions to establish a better hot site location with guaranteed recovery options. Very quickly that evolved to needing to [...]
Hearing that NCUA is coming onsite can often be a stressful situation, especially if you are in the Information Technology area. So many new threats have cropped up and there is no indication that things [...]
I think we’d all agree that email is a vital tool for all areas of credit union operations. We’d probably also agree that it is not uncommon for work (or the need to [...]
If you are responsible for high-end network design for your credit union and you are trying to figure out ways to build redundancy and resiliency in your branch and server network architecture, this article is [...]
While talking with a credit union this week, I had a conversation about “cloud computing” with a CIO who had expressed continuing frustration with the speed at which (or lack thereof) that they were getting [...]
If you’re like most credit unions, you’ve worked hard to get your Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan into shape this past year. If you are an Ongoing Operations client, you’ve also [...]
For the majority of my work life, if business were disrupted for some reason and employee’s were to stay at home, I either a) received a call from a fellow worker or b) was [...]
If your credit union has never done a disaster recovery test, this post won’t make much sense. However, If your credit union is planning on complying with your FFIEC guidelines and doing at least [...]
by: Kirk Drake If you or your company does not currently spend money on backing up key systems, sending data offsite, planning for disasters etc. than this post isn’t for you. If you are [...]
It’s Monday and you open your email to see that your credit union’s annual NCUA IT Exam is scheduled for some time in the first quarter. You don’t have the dates yet [...]
As a late Gen Xer/Early Millennial – I grew up with technology. I remember distinctly in the 5th grade when the mouse was introduced and our computer lab moved to Macs from Tandys. I started [...]
by: Robin Remines Are you sick of spending all of your time preparing for examiners? ARE YOU TIRED OF LOSING YOUR CREATIVE ASSETS TO COMPLIANCE WORK? DO YOU WANT TO GET BACK TO TECHNOLOGY AND [...]
by: Kirk Drake In my experience there are three things that every board wants. Less Risk, More Profits, and More Predictability. The good news is that as financial institutions you are pretty good at all [...]
