MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation. Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Service outages ultimately frustrate customers, leading to churn and loss of trust. Continuously monitor system logs to detect unusual activity, such as failed login attempts or unauthorized data transfers. Endpoint detection and response tools monitor and respond to suspicious activities on devices within the network.

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PagerDuty

OCTOBER 29, 2024

This ensures that escalation policies are in place and configured correctly–mitigating risk and accelerating resolution during response. Generally available for Enterprise Incident Management customers who have an active Jeli integration. Phased rollout has begun for all incident management plans.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 3, 2021

As a result, businesses were on an ever-revolving turntable of purchasing new arrays, installing them, migrating data, juggling weekend outages, and managing months-long implementations. For our early customers, it has meant a decade without the hassles of migrations, storage refreshes, weekend outages, or application outages.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2023

The wise organization develops strategies and plans to mitigate and prepare for all five types of risk. This could happen if, for example, the company becomes unable to perform a certain function or loses the ability to monitor compliance activities. Assess the residual risk after you have developed plans and mitigation strategies.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

They soon find the field contains an abundance of specialist terms such as inherent risk , mitigation controls , and recovery time objective. The activity of crisis management is also included under the umbrella though that tends to be treated separately.) Sometimes the form business continuity management (BCM) is used.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 22, 2024

When an IT outage strikes, the primary concern is the rapid restoration of services. Service restoration ensures that the business can resume operations swiftly, mitigating potential financial losses. Ultimately, the pragmatic approach involves understanding the context of each outage and choosing the most efficient path.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

Therefore, if you’re designing a DR strategy to withstand events such as power outages, flooding, and other other localized disruptions, then using a Multi-AZ DR strategy within an AWS Region can provide the protection you need. Active/passive and active/active DR strategies. In Figure 3, we show how active/passive works.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

.” The BCP is a master document that details your organization’s entire prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery protocols for all kinds of threats and disasters. Instructions about how to use the plan end-to-end, from activation to de-activation phases. The purpose and scope of the BCP.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management The Practice of Vulnerability Management Last week, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog about vulnerability management , the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. We at MHA are happy to participate in these types of conversations and activities. BC strategy development is not a “one and done” activity.

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PagerDuty

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

PagerDutys AI agents will include: Agentic Site Reliability Engineer: Will identify and classify operational issues, surfacing important context such as related or past issues and guiding responders with recommendations to accelerate resolution, thus mitigating business risk caused by operational disruption and enhancing the customer experience.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

But in our current period of an ever-expanding set of global threats, most organizations would benefit from developing a system for actively monitoring potential threats to their operations and assets. The reason for monitoring threats is to enable the organization to take educated actions to avoid them or mitigate their impact.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This automation reduces the burden on IT staff, enabling them to respond to incidents more quickly while focusing on customer service-oriented and strategic activities. Increased operational resilience : A quick response and recovery from IT incidents and outages help institutions mitigate risks associated with system outages or delays.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation. Other BCM professionals.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest.

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PagerDuty

JULY 31, 2024

They can be large, messy, and complex, like the major outage we saw recently. When incidents occur, mobilizing and coordinating responders is crucial to restoring service, protecting the customer experience, and mitigating business risks. During an active incident, time is money and we want to decrease the impact.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As the program matures, various other roles will be needed, possibly including the following: Building Maintenance or Facilities Manager: This individual can provide information on what mitigation steps are already in place for the facility, such as fire suppression and electrical service. Business continuity planning is a social activity.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 14, 2024

Risk can never be eliminated but it can be mitigated. Enterprise Risk Management is the activity of identifying and mitigating the hazards that threaten an organization (definition from Strong Language: The MHA Glossary of Essential Business Continuity Terminology , available for free download with registration).

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

It also documents existing strategies and measures already in place to mitigate the impact of said risks. Essentially, risk assessment identifies potential risks, assesses their severity, and determines the best course of action to mitigate or eliminate them. What is a Service Level Agreement (SLA) in Business Continuity?

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 20, 2024

Global IT disruptions and outages are becoming the new normal, testing the operational resilience of businesses everywhere. For instance, if an outage occurs, having a unified view can help teams quickly identify and resolve issues, minimizing the impact on customer experience.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 6, 2024

The recent global outage reminds us that identifying issues and their impact radius is just the first part of a lengthy process to remediation. It spans a wide range of activities, from incident response and reliability management to provisioning and reporting.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 8, 2024

Cloud providers have experienced outages due to configuration errors , distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS), and even catastrophic fires. Get Your Info from the Source For large incidents and major outages, the events are often the main tech news story of the day. This dependence has brought risk.

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Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Top Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 27, 2024 Cayosoft Secures Patent for Active Directory Recovery Solution Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery’s patented approach solves these issues by functioning as an AD resilience solution rather than a typical backup and recovery tool.

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Pure Storage

JULY 12, 2021

patient records, student records, and information about active law enforcement cases), and they know where to post it to do the most damage. . If hackers take out your organization’s active directory, DNS, or other core services, or lock you out of your infrastructure entirely, you’re at their mercy without available recovery points.

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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.” However, backups fail to provide protection from data theft with no chance of recovery.

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Zerto

JANUARY 17, 2023

The IDC study found that 79% of those surveyed activated a disaster response, 83% experienced data corruption from an attack, and nearly 60% experienced unrecoverable data. This vulnerability is particularly alarming for organizations that are refactoring their applications for Kubernetes and containers.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 30, 2022

To recognize its importance, you only need to look at the multibillion-dollar industry that has been built up around it or read the news to observe the near-daily outages of major businesses or ransoms paid to bad actors. Mitigating Risks with Pure Cloud Block Store. Low-Cost Disaster Recovery Meets Granular Ransomware Mitigation.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 20, 2024

Global IT disruptions and outages are becoming the new normal, testing the operational resilience of businesses everywhere. For instance, if an outage occurs, having a unified view can help teams quickly identify and resolve issues, minimizing the impact on customer experience.

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LogisManager

MAY 27, 2021

It’s important to actively invest time and energy into preparing for any potential risk before a potential event of a disaster so that if or when it does, your BCP directs you to the necessary resources to return to business as usual. Be sure to implement strategic mitigations as part of your business impact analysis. Getting sued.

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PagerDuty

AUGUST 6, 2024

The recent global outage reminds us that identifying issues and their impact radius is just the first part of a lengthy process to remediation. It spans a wide range of activities, from incident response and reliability management to provisioning and reporting.

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Castellan

JUNE 15, 2021

Rounding out the top 10 most-pressing events organizations are most concerned about: Cyber-attacks: 88% Power outages: 76% Data breaches: 74% Network/communication outages: 58% Pandemic/diseases: 53% Computer viruses: 52% Brand/social media damage: 51% Hurricanes: 47% Fires (not natural) 46% Earthquakes: 40%.

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Fusion Risk Management

AUGUST 27, 2024

Whether facing a natural disaster , cyber attack or IT outage , or global pandemic, resilient organizations are better equipped to navigate these challenges and emerge stronger. Impact Assessment s : Evaluate the potential impact of disruptions and develop strategies to mitigate risks.

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Online Computers

JANUARY 20, 2022

Its purpose is to ensure that critical functions can be restored quickly in case of unplanned events or emergencies, such as fires, floods, terrorist attacks, power outages, or data breaches. In other words, mitigation is an important strategy when developing a BCP.

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Security Industry Association

MARCH 18, 2022

In addition to the more obvious alarm and object recognition tasks, the security industry can apply this through a focus on what’s missing and augment the security response, mitigation and design process so we’re working alongside tech instead of fearing replacement. Upgrade Use Case: Smart City Traffic.

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PagerDuty

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Overstaffing to compensate : Many NOCS attempt to mitigate the impact of turnover by overstaffing, which inflates labor costs without addressing the root problem. Whether its a website outage during a major sale or a factory shutdown due to a cyberattack, the costs of downtime go far beyond lost revenue.

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Online Computers

AUGUST 29, 2023

Reputable MSPs like Online Computers specialize in addressing and mitigating the impacts of cyberthreats. Some cyberthreats can make company data inaccessible by locking it away using encryption. Others can delete or steal sensitive information. Others can delete or steal sensitive information.

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