by StoneRock Cyber Editorial Team | Oct 28, 2026 | Recordkeeping
The continuity documentation mistakes that cause the most trouble are not dramatic. They are a document nobody dated, a contact list with a person who left, a runbook written in the author’s own shorthand, and a set of files kept in exactly the one place that...
by StoneRock Cyber Editorial Team | Oct 28, 2026 | Business Continuity
A recovery runbook is one page per process that says what the process is, who performs it, the steps to bring it back, and who to tell. The test of a good one is simple: a competent person who does not normally run that process should be able to follow it without...
by StoneRock Cyber Editorial Team | Oct 28, 2026 | Recordkeeping
To verify backups restore, you take a copy that has already been made, bring the data back somewhere it can be examined, check that what came back is complete and readable by the people who use it, and write down the result with a name and a date against it. A green...
by StoneRock Cyber Editorial Team | Apr 9, 2026 | Business Continuity
Laptops, phones, tablets and shared office equipment move around. People join and leave, devices are swapped, and a spare laptop ends up in a drawer. A device inventory keeps a current answer to a simple question: which devices does the organization have, who has each...
by StoneRock Cyber Editorial Team | Apr 2, 2026 | Recordkeeping
Every system your organization relies on receives updates from time to time. Some are applied right away, some wait for a quiet moment, and some are put off for a good reason. Without a record, nobody can say which systems are current, which are waiting, and who...