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Training Tips for Ships

Tip #23

Is Your Training Tech

Disaster-Ready?

customer once told me that they had just completed happen. Just a few weeks ago, on March 9, 2021, a ? re broke a business continuity analysis and had identi? ed out at Europe’s largest cloud provider in Strasbourg, France. their LMS as their second most mission-critical The damage was catastrophic. This impacted 3.5 million web-

A technology - second only to payroll! Take a mo- sites and applications across the world including government ment to consider how much you rely on training technologies agencies, banks, online retailers, news websites and a good to sustain your operations and compliance. How long could portion of France’s .FR domain. It also impacted MarineLMS you comfortably go without your employees having access to for some of our European customers. At that moment, the Ma- training? How long could you go without access to your com- rine Learning Systems DRP was, indeed, tested. Fortunately, pliance records or your employees’ certi? cates? Since training we were ready. Are you?

(and proof of training) is required for compliance and safe op- In creating and maintaining a DRP, there is much to con- erations, the answer is typically “not long”. It is time that we sider. Much more than can be included here. However, now is all realize our training infrastructure is mission-critical, and a great time to reconsider your own DRP, or to create a DRP that we treat it as such. for your mission-critical learning systems (and other technical

Mission-critical systems require special consideration in any systems). Let’s identify the basics. business. Most importantly, there must be a well-designed, The ? rst step is to create a full list of your mission-critical vetted and regularly tested disaster recovery plan (DRP). technology-based systems. What technologies do you rely on?

When an IT disaster strikes, so begins the unforgiving, and Order them by how long you could live without them. often harsh, test of an organization’s DRP policies. And it will Next, consider the cost of the permanent loss of all LMS © canjoena/AdobeStock 12 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • April 2021

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