On Solve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

With the help of Confucius, Dr. Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. A BR/CM/CC/DR plan exercise validates the plan and procedures, tests/trains responders in simulated real conditions and provides feedback to the plan developers and responders.

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Erwood Group

JULY 7, 2022

What is Business Continuity. So, what is business continuity anyway? So, what is business continuity? Before I give you my answer, let me provide you with the definition from the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) 1600 (Which is their Business Continuity Standard). Business Impact Analysis.

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Online Computers

JUNE 5, 2023

They offer a wide range of services and solutions designed to help organizations safeguard operations, mitigate risks, and ensure uninterrupted business continuity. Here are some of the essential MSP services that can help your New Jersey business maintain resilience and secure business continuity.

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BCP Builder

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A well-crafted emergency response plan is essential for ensuring the safety of students, staff, and faculty, while also minimizing disruptions to university operations. Developing a robust emergency response plan involves thorough preparation, coordination, and ongoing training.

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The Future of Business Continuity The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies In an era of rapid technological advancement, the landscape of business continuity is evolving, embracing innovations and emerging technologies to enhance resilience.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. Savvy organizational leaders employ corporate strategies such as disaster recovery and business continuity to nimbly navigate through such emergencies and maintain functionality in the face of disasters. What is a Business Continuity Plan?

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BCP Builder

JULY 1, 2024

This is where Business Continuity Planning (BCP) becomes indispensable. Minimizing Operational Disruptions Universities are not just educational institutions; they are complex organizations with critical administrative functions, research activities, and healthcare facilities.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. Prepare My Business for an Emergency. Another excellent DHS website. If possible, get the fire department to tour your facilities.

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Castellan

APRIL 6, 2022

When it comes to business continuity planning, a lot of organizations think about anticipated event types and make plans to adequately address them. But the strongest and most resilient organizations don’t focus on single event response. It’s about a much larger picture organizations should think about.

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everbridge

AUGUST 11, 2021

More than 2,800 senior executives in organizations of all sizes across 29 industries and 73 countries weighed in on their 2020 crisis response plans in PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC) annual impact survey. This is a valuable insight into resiliency planning, business operations, and the future of the workplace. IT Services.

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NexusTek

JULY 28, 2021

You’re not actively monitoring your IT infrastructure for threats. You don’t have an incident response plan. Incident response preparedness can save up to $2 million on data breaches, according to IBM, and yet 39% of small and medium-sized businesses do not have an incident response plan.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. The issue, more often than not, is that their operations and response plans are riddled with unidentified gaps. This cuts across all areas of BC activity. They have to work.

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KingsBridge BCP

AUGUST 14, 2022

Is my plan enough? As Business Continuity professionals, we see a lot of plans. We develop plans for our clients, we help mentor clients on how to build their plans themselves, we review existing plans for gaps, and we audit plans. At what point is your plan too rigid?

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eBRP

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

An agile response requires tested and documented Incident Response Plans – including Crisis Management, Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery Plans. As presented at the DRJ Fall World 2018, participants learned about the various program components that will help build an effective CSIRP.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Technology allows for the optimization and automation of appropriate incident response, including early warning systems, standard operating procedures, escalation policies, best practices, and response team and device activations. As you audit your emergency plans, you are likely to have identified areas for improvement.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Chemical Safety Board issued a call to chemical facilities to prepare for a harsh hurricane season based on an “above average” outlook on hurricane activity from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Recently, the U.S. NOAA’s predictions also estimate a range of 12 to 17 total named storms this season.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 21, 2022

Before a breach, it’s critical to already have an emergency response plan, including a team of key players and the tools they need to get you back online fast. . Creating an emergency response team (ERT) is a critical step I recommend organizations take before an event. Retrieving lost data from physical and virtual devices.

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BCP Builder

JULY 8, 2024

From natural disasters to cyberattacks and active shooter situations, universities must be prepared to handle various emergencies. Understanding these threats and implementing effective preparation strategies is essential for ensuring safety and maintaining operational continuity.

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BCP Builder

JULY 8, 2024

From natural disasters to cyberattacks and active shooter situations, universities must be prepared to handle various emergencies. Understanding these threats and implementing effective preparation strategies is essential for ensuring safety and maintaining operational continuity.

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Fusion Risk Management

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Crisis and Incident Response Geopolitical events often necessitate the activation of emergency response and crisis response plans. Activation of Business Continuity Plans Organizations should activate the business continuity plans that they have in place to minimize disruption to their operations.

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BCP Builder

JULY 15, 2024

Roles and Responsibilities : Define clear roles and responsibilities for each team member, outlining their specific contributions to the risk assessment process. Assign a team leader to coordinate activities and ensure the assessment stays on track. Response Plans : Develop detailed response plans for each identified risk.

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BCP Builder

JULY 15, 2024

Roles and Responsibilities : Define clear roles and responsibilities for each team member, outlining their specific contributions to the risk assessment process. Assign a team leader to coordinate activities and ensure the assessment stays on track. Response Plans : Develop detailed response plans for each identified risk.

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Risk Management Monitor

MARCH 4, 2022

A wide range of risks are trickling down from Russia’s assault on Ukraine , from sanctions compliance to supply chain disruption to business interruption. Concerns about escalating cyber activity around the crisis are a vivid reminder of the importance of knowing your threat model and adjusting your risk management priorities accordingly.

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Castellan

JANUARY 10, 2022

That’s part of what we chatted about recently as Castellan joined the Women Corporate Directors (WCD) Foundation for an event focused on the role executives and board members play in developing resilience management programs that integrate in a holistic way to facilitate readiness and response activities for organizations around the globe.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Any data that has been identified as valuable and essential to the organization should also be protected with proactive security measures such as Cyberstorage that can actively defend both primary and backup copies from theft.” Thankfully, modern cloud backup solutions have the benefit of being suitable for businesses of any size.

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PagerDuty

JUNE 26, 2024

Immutable centralized incident record : PagerDuty provides a time-stamped log of all activities and resolution steps relating to an incident. Alternatively, firms could manually disable a machine or application or create a PagerDuty test incident to trigger an outage and then practice their response procedures.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 18, 2023

Personal resilience is critical in business continuity as it enables individuals to cope with unexpected changes and disruptions. Firstly, it increases the confidence of the response staff so when they respond in real-time they are aware of the stress that may be put on them. During an incident.

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Castellan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Toss in multiple simultaneous (and ongoing) disruptions, and teams find themselves bogged down with response plan focus, robbing them of time to build a holistic approach that spans from planning through response and into recovery. Let’s say your response plans require you to activate your IT team.

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everbridge

MAY 2, 2023

As these risks continue to escalate, it is crucial for organizations to prioritize climate resilience measures to ensure business continuity and reduce exposure to risk. As with any risk management strategy, it is important for businesses to also monitor and review their approach to chronic hazards on an ongoing basis.

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NexusTek

JULY 28, 2021

Youre not actively monitoring your IT infrastructure for threats. You dont have an incident response plan. Incident response preparedness can save up to $2 million on data breaches, according to IBM, and yet 39% of small and medium-sized businesses do not have an incident response plan.

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NexusTek

MARCH 10, 2021

After a training session, you could also continue to issue mock phishing campaigns to track improvement and even assign refresher training to those who fail the phishing test. Actively prevent cyberattacks and decrease the margin for error with a strong spam filter. Establish an incident response plan.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2021

This week, Charlie goes into depth about different business continuity plans, how to know which plan suits which incident, and how to create a framework that works for you! I have spoken about the requirement for writing generic response plans in a previous bulletin.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Being short doesn’t necessarily mean bad, well at least in business continuity exercises. To organise a complex tabletop, live, or SIMEX (simulation)* exercise usually takes months of planning and preparation. The outputs of many of the exercises in my book can be used to develop response plans for different scenarios.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2021

This week, Charlie goes into depth about different contingency plans, how to know which plan suits which incident, and how to create a framework that works for you! I have spoken about the requirement for writing generic response plans in a previous bulletin.

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FEI

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In early 2019, FEI’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) involved a room that had been identified specifically for emergency or incident response teams to report to if a crisis occurred. When activated, the room was filled with people addressing an incident with urgency and purpose. The COVID-19 pandemic did not ascribe to this.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2018

So, this week I was inspired by the city to write about a technical business continuity subject. This could include giving a number of people who don’t have a response role the task to actively seek out incident information, process it and then present it in manageable form to the incident team.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2018

So, this week I was inspired by the city to write about a technical business continuity subject. This could include giving a number of people who don’t have a response role the task to actively seek out incident information, process it and then present it in manageable form to the incident team.

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