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 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 ...

"If your data's off-site, halfway across the country, it's safe. But what do I do if my IT department is wiped out?" said Kevin Baradet, network systems director at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School at ...

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 ...

San Diego’s response to last year’s flooding in southeastern San Diego was marred by improvised and disjointed decision-making, delayed infrastructure management and poor public communication planning ...

A prominent group of academics and real estate industry experts has crafted a far-reaching plan to hasten the recovery of Los Angeles County neighborhoods devastated by the January wildfires. The ...

Maui Country officials have released the county’s final Long-Term Recovery Plan for Lahaina. The release follows a monthlong community engagement series on the draft plan that included feedback from ...