Due to the ubiquity of technology within any business, contingency planning is a company-wide effort. Not only the planning, but the execution of the plan at any level will require the cooperation of business managers and technology managers.

The approach of a “lessons learned” exercise is a method of continuous improvement that is based on a singular event (COVID-19) or similarly related events.

Before the current reality of rapidly implementing solutions that support “social distancing” and “self-isolation,” IT organizations were overloaded; do we stand a chance today?  Failure is not an option, and we can all use some help now and then; many organizations need help right now!  SynerComm has a long history of partnering with customers to overcome these challenges.

As the business world reacts to the current health crisis, companies are offering remote access to any role that can work from home. Taking a cue from the changing environment, cyber-criminals are already taking advantage. Here are some recommendations on continuing to practice good information security hygiene as more of the access moves outside of the physical office.

We all know the stats of the Coronavirus, although they are changing by the minute. We know what to do personally and for our families but what about for our Company? Many customers do have Business Continuity Plans or Enterprise Risk management plans, but do they include plans for a Pandemic such as this?