NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

READ TIME: 6 MIN May 15, 2023 Business Continuity vs Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference? In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. When it comes to IT downtime, it’s not a matter of “if” but “when.” What Is a Disaster Recovery Plan?

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Online Computers

JANUARY 20, 2022

A business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that contains guidelines on how business operations can continue during unexpected disruptions. A BCP should provide clear guidance on how day-to-day operations will continue to prepare your employees, business partners, and/or consultants for any unforeseen eventuality.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.

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Erwood Group

MAY 30, 2024

Recovery Time Objective: A Key Component in Business Continuity Understanding Recovery Time Objectives: A Key Component in Business Continuity In the business world, change occurs rapidly, and maintaining operational resilience even during these changes is critical.

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Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If IT Resilience is the cornerstone of business resilience as seen in part three , in today’s digital world, cyber resilience is an extension of it, and one of its other pillars. Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), What Is Cyber Resilience?

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Most organizations recognize the importance of having a sound business continuity recovery plan, but many plans are undermined by the presence of overlooked weaknesses. However, while it’s true that having a remote-capable workforce increases resilience in some ways, remote work has vulnerabilities of its own.

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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. However, there is one aspect of doing BCM that is much better and easier than it was when I was getting started 25 years ago.

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Online Computers

MARCH 10, 2023

A business continuity plan (BCP) is a vital document that outlines the procedures and strategies an organization must follow to be able to continue operating in the event of an emergency or a disaster. Assess your company's risks and vulnerabilities Identify the potential risks and threats that your business may face.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2025

” Corey Nachreiner – CISO at WatchGuard Technologies “In a digital environment where 80 percent of organizations are vulnerable to ransomware attacks, implementing regular data backups across your organizations critical components is key to your cybersecurity strategy.

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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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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. It also showed the vulnerability of the city to a power cut, when most people presumed that power in a city would only ever be cut for a short period of time.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. 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.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Vulnerability of Customer Data. Data breaches from internal and external sources, as well as technology vulnerabilities, can harm a company’s customers, damage its reputation, and result in a flurry of fines and penalties from regulators. Support is AI-driven, so issues can be resolved before they become outages.

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BCM METRICS

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Because technology is vulnerable to disruption—and disruptions are on the rise—every organization should devise manual workarounds for its critical business processes. The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside […].

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IT Governance BC

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Although share prices showed signs of recovery within a couple of days, more than £1 billion was wiped off the stock market value of the firm, as investors worried that retailers may be less keen to buy into the automated warehouse technology having seen that there is a potential vulnerability.*. Business continuity management.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

Read on for a list of a dozen business continuity practices that have fallen into disuse or are no longer recommended. Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The past twenty-five years have seen a lot of changes in the world especially as pertains to business.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Driving Blind: The Problem with Skipping the Threat and Risk Assessment The Need for Threat Intelligence Traditional business continuity methodology leans heavily on the threat and risk assessment or TRA, in which the organization identifies potential threats and ranks them in terms of likelihood and potential impact.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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. A haphazard approach to bolstering tech security can leave a host of vulnerabilities. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill?

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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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CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization. So, it’s important your emergency and continuity management program addresses summer hazards.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community. It also showed the vulnerability of the city to a power cut, when most people presumed that power in a city would only ever be cut for a short period of time.

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Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 40

Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Securing your data is just the start: once you have a data protection strategy in place, it’s critical to consider recovery of that data should any disruption, outage, or cyber-attack occur. More emphasis needs to be placed on protecting mission critical data wherever it is located and ensuring business continuity.

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IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans need to keep pace with increasing business demands and growth in physical and compute infrastructures. For a hyperconnected digital business, even a small disruptive event can ripple through the entire organization. Today most businesses have BCDR plans.

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AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a bonus, you’ll see how to use service control policies (SCPs) to help simulate a Regional outage, so that you can test failover scenarios more realistically. Both dependencies might violate static stability, because we are relying on resources in our DR plan that might be affected by the outage we’re seeing.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 2, 2024

Understanding these hidden costs is crucial for businesses to develop effective strategies for minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity. Every minute a system is offline translates to lost revenue, especially for e-commerce businesses and those relying on online transactions. Get Your Data Back Fast.

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LAN Infotech

JANUARY 2, 2022

To add further protection, penetration tests are conducted to expertly seek out vulnerabilities in an IT infrastructure and find ways to strengthen the protection of the infrastructure. To increase the efficiency of business operations, software of all kinds may need to be continually installed, configured, patched, and updated.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. What’s the Difference Between Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment? What Is Risk Assessment?

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Because technology is vulnerable to disruption—and disruptions are on the rise—every organization should devise manual workarounds for its critical business processes. The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. And if they have lost it, they need to rebuild it.

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Outage BCM Internet Healthcare 52

Zerto

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Disaster recovery (DR) testing is important across all industries and companies of all sizes to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery. In reality, they are highly vulnerable when a real DR scenario occurs. Importance of disaster recovery.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Try a Dose of Risk Management Getting Back in the Air This year, I’m glad to say, I returned to my prepandemic level of business travel. Working remotely as a business continuity management consulting firm worked while it had to, but there’s nothing like visiting organizations in person. as well as throughout the U.S.

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BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Outage 52

MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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. Over the past several years, hackers have shown this approach to be highly vulnerable, and as a result the Zero Trust framework was developed.

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Fusion Risk Management

APRIL 5, 2023

What is the impact of any given scenario on my business? Where are my vulnerabilities? But, with the invention of a crystal ball not on the horizon, organizations need an alternate way to gain a complete view of their important business services and be better prepared to prevent a potential disruption before it materializes.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

The risk maturity model is a key component of business continuity. In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

The risk maturity model is a key component of business continuity. In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall.

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Online Computers

JULY 17, 2022

Corruption can occur due to a variety of reasons, such as viruses, hardware problems, or power outages. What’s more, cybercriminals can use corrupted files to exploit vulnerabilities in business systems. How can businesses prevent file corruption? Is it possible to retrieve a corrupted file?

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Disaster Safety

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

DEVELOP COVID-TAILORED BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS FOR WINTER WEATHER. Before severe winter weather strikes, prepare by developing a COVID-tailored business continuity plan and an emergency preparedness plan that accounts for the variables of the pandemic. GROUND SNOW.

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Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Fusion Risk Management surveyed 1,000 employees of organizations across the globe to see how companies are preparing for disruptions , where they may be falling short, and what this means for the future of risk management , business continuity, and operational resilience.

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