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CrowdStrike: Lessons on the Importance of Contracts, Insurance and Business Continuity

IT Governance BC

Mitigating supply chain risk After widespread coverage, the CrowdStrike outage from 19 July 2024 hardly needs an introduction. The outage was caused by a bad security update rolled out by CrowdStrike. Without question, this is one of the most expensive IT outages to date, with significant global impact. Then there’s insurance.

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An Introduction to FFIEC: BCM’s Gold Standard

MHA Consulting

FFIEC is, of course, one of many standards that organizations can adopt and seek to come into alignment with to strengthen their BCM programs. For this reason, it is often referred to as the Gold Standard of BCM standards. The Gold Standard FFIEC is the most aggressive standard in the U.S. marketplace.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. An organization that would suffer a large impact as the result of an outage of two hours should be willing to tolerate very little risk. Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed.

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Continuity Strategies to Support an Enterprise Resiliency Program

eBRP

To build an Adaptive, Resilient Enterprise , organizations must move beyond conventional Business Continuity Management (BCM) approaches. Traditional BCM is often limited to tactical response plans, perceived simply as insurance policies that rarely spark high-level executive engagement.

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Healthcare Under Attack: Building Resilience in the Face of an Aggressive Cyber Threat

MHA Consulting

A company called Change Healthcare, which is the largest electronic clearinghouse for medical insurance payments in the country, was struck by hackers who stole patient data and encrypted company files, demanding payment to unlock them. health care system in American history.” Data breaches generally do not affect day-to-day operations.

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How a Risk Maturity Model Can Increase Your Company’s Resilience

MHA Consulting

Over time, we see risks go down, the number of outages decrease, and insurance and other costs decrease. BC departments that “speak risk” tend to get more of a hearing, more traction, and more resources. Second, using the risk maturity model pays. I’ve seen it here at MHA and over and over again at our clients.

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How a Risk Maturity Model Can Increase Your Company’s Resilience

MHA Consulting

Over time, we see risks go down, the number of outages decrease, and insurance and other costs decrease. BC departments that “speak risk” tend to get more of a hearing, more traction, and more resources. Second, using the risk maturity model pays. I’ve seen it here at MHA and over and over again at our clients.