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How Much Damage Do You Want to Incur From a Major Business Interruption?

Bernstein Crisis Management

Whether it’s an incident affecting a single location, or a pandemic sweeping the globe, business continuity is increasingly vulnerable to a wide variety of natural and man-made interruptions for which organizations must plan as carefully as they plan for launching any product or service.

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Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 5 minutes There is something that bothers many Management Consultants in the Business Continuity and Information Technology field. Business Continuity is not a data backup. Let us repeat.

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Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup. There is something that bothers many Management Consultants in the Business Continuity and Information Technology field. Have you tried to search for the terms “Business Continuity” or “ Business Continuity Planning ” on Google or Bing search engines recently?

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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

MHA Consulting

Try a Dose of Risk Management As a business continuity professional, I tip my hat to any organization that makes a serious effort to reduce its risks. Let’s look at how this might work over the three key areas of facilities, technology, and people. These measures sound impressive.

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Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

MHA Consulting

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. Backup equipment and virtual desktops. It is laudable to have backup equipment and virtual desktops available for use.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. The most vulnerable areas tend to be electrical power, data backups, and network connectivity. Many organizations lack sufficient backup power supplies to keep even their most critical equipment functioning in the event of a power outage.

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Zero Trust Security: What BC Practitioners Need to Know

MHA Consulting

Here’s what business continuity professionals need to know about the rigorous new security framework that is designed to protect organizations from hackers and their bots. What BC Professionals Need to Know What do you as a business continuity professional need to know about Zero Trust?