In previous articles we’ve discussed basic incident response, CIMS command structures, and operational applications of firefighting concepts to IT. This final piece will cover Communications, and Recovery, and Readiness. Communications There’s two areas of comms I thought useful to highlight here. …

So in the previous pieces I laid out the background around how Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) incident response and management are done, and drew some parallels to an IT context. …

In the previous article we saw a standard Fire and Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) incident response to a small scale and easily resolved incident. But lets choose the other path on our wee adventure. On the way to that trash can on fire, the radio advised that they’re now receiving…

I’ve spent about 25 years in the trenches of IT, both in the US and in New Zealand after emigrating in 2003. So, I’ve been there on many occasions when everything was figuratively on fire. I’ve also been a volunteer firefighter with Plimmerton Volunteer Fire Brigade (Fire and Emergency New…