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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maui residents can comment on proposed updates to the county's disaster recovery plan, which includes new construction programs, reimbursement expansions, buyouts in risk areas, and fund reallocations ...

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 ...

Gray wolf populations have been wiped out in the lower 48 states due to historic government-funded killing programs. Remaining populations exist almost entirely in northeastern Minnesota. (Image ...

After an initial rejection and amendment of its required Hurricane Helene recovery plan as it seeks more than $200 million in federal funds, the City of Asheville, North Carolina’s revised plan has ...