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Sing This Often A BIA Shanty

Jarrett Heintz · 2:18 · Released 28 September 2025

  • BIA
  • Business continuity
  • Incident response
  • Hash It Out — the album
  • Everything, A to Z
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Lyrics

  1. Heave ho, me lads, and fill out that form!
  2. Assess the risk and weather the storm!
  3. What’s critical now, and what can delay?
  4. It’s time we chart the B.I.A.!
  5. Verse 1 – MTD / MAD / AIW (Too Many Names Verse)
  6. There’s M-T-D and M-A-D,And A-I-W for you and me.
  7. They all mean the max we’ll allow,
  8. Before the ship goes under now!
  9. It’s time, my friend, the outer bound,
  10. For when the biz must not go down.
  11. Three names, one goal, it’s quite insane —
  12. Just bring it up before the blame!
  13. Verse 2 – Discovery Phase
  14. We sailed through finance, ops, and HR,Ask’d ‘em,
  15. “How bad if your tools don’t spar?”“Two days we’re fine,” said the mailroom’s crew,
  16. But payroll screamed, “We’ll all be sued!”
  17. Heave ho, me lads, and rank that pain!
  18. How much money lost per day of rain?
  19. Recovery time and points we weigh —
  20. It’s all inside the B.I.A.!
  21. Verse 3 – RTO vs. RPO (Clarity Verse)
  22. Now R-T-O’s the time you’ve got,
  23. To get systems runnin’, cold or hot.
  24. It starts the moment trouble begins,
  25. And ends when service comes back in.
  26. But R-P-O, she tells the tale,
  27. Of how much data ye might bail.
  28. It’s how far back ye’ll roll the logs,
  29. When bits are lost to cyber dogs!
  30. Heave ho, mind the diff’rence, mate!
  31. One’s about time, one’s data’s fate!
  32. R-T-O is when we rise,
  33. R-P-O’s the data slice!
  34. Verse 4 – Prioritization
  35. We don’t protect what we never know,
  36. So gather the facts before the winds blow.
  37. Before the audit or breach takes sway,
  38. Prepare ye now — the B.I.A.!