MHA Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Mark My Words: Commonly Confused Business Continuity Terms The Meaning of “Continuity” If you’ve been to MHA’s home page , you know what our firm is all about. As the headline on the page explains, we provide “Business continuity consulting for today’s leading companies.”

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Many organizations struggle with establishing a sound business continuity strategy, a foundational aspect of a strong BC program. Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage.

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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. A List of Common Gaps MHA Consulting works with clients of all types and sizes, from Fortune 100 companies on down, and across the broadest possible range of industries and sectors.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In terms of bang for the buck, not all business continuity activities are created equal. Related on MHA Consulting: The Retro Revolution: Why Manual Workarounds Are a BC Must Rehearsing Your Plan B Due to the complexity of BC methodology, many aspects of the field have the potential to become time sinks. This is to be commended.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Having quality documentation is an important part of a sound business continuity management program, but it’s not the most important part. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. It helps organizations identify gaps, train their teams, and respond effectively during outages.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 23, 2023

FFIEC in our industry is best known for providing the business continuity management standard that U.S. By adhering to the council’s guidelines, companies can implement best practices for risk management, cybersecurity, data protection, and business continuity planning. financial institutions are required to meet.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Business continuity planning is a social activity. Further Reading Who Does What: The Most Critical Job Roles in IT Disaster Recovery Our Complex World Demands a “Team of Teams” 8 Tips for Building a Good Crisis Management Team A Little Help: How to Select a BCM Consultant Who’s the Boss? Extraversion. Intellectual Openness.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Approaching maintenance in this way allows your organization to be prepared for planned outages within your infrastructure, including patch installation, security updates, and service packs. In the event of a natural disaster, equipment failure, or a power outage, and backup files kept on-site will become inaccessible.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2024

As a leading continuity-consulting firm to major private and public entities over the last thirteen (13) years, we have worked across many industries and seen varying levels of organizational preparedness in the event of an unplanned disruption due to natural, man-made or technological events.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. The post The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional appeared first on MHA Consulting. The range, severity, and potential frequency of the threats facing organizations today are greater than I’ve ever seen them.

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NexusTek

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 23, 2022

It is reasonable to expect that increased telecommuting could trigger certain elements of your business continuity plan — either due to outage or load. Make sure IT is represented to address the technical ramifications of telecommuting directives or hosting technical support visitors on site. The Need for Balance.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Everyone knows business continuity planning can help organizations prepare for emergencies. Some organizations we work with utilize their incident management team whenever there is a potential issue or non-DR outage. They often tell us something like, “By the way, we activated our incident management team due to X outage.”

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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

AUGUST 6, 2024

As a leading continuity-consulting firm to major private and public entities over the last thirteen (13) years, we have worked across many industries and seen varying levels of organizational preparedness in the event of an unplanned disruption due to natural, man-made or technological events.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In fact, during an incident a smartphone can act as a mini incident room, ensuring emails can be sent, holding copies of the plans and contact numbers and allowing the user to get information from the internet. appeared first on PlanB Consulting. I imagined individual cells could go down but not a whole system.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In fact, during an incident a smartphone can act as a mini incident room, ensuring emails can be sent, holding copies of the plans and contact numbers and allowing the user to get information from the internet. appeared first on PlanB Consulting. I imagined individual cells could go down but not a whole system.

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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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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Working remotely as a business continuity management consulting firm worked while it had to, but there’s nothing like visiting organizations in person. One of these years, I hope to be able to write about the acceptance of the need for responsible continuity planning by even the biggest companies.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

As we are not yet out of the winter you may need to plan for snow. When I am teaching people about business continuity, one of the events which I suggest could cause invocation of the business continuity plan is forecasted severe weather. Delay any work that could potentially lead to an accident or an outage.

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NexusTek

MARCH 4, 2020

The reality for your business and a conversation that needs to be brought to the forefront is to secure your Business Continuity Plan (BCP). power outages, email outages, etc). A solid BCP communication plan will have multiple layers of communication to address the enacting of a BCP plan.

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Erwood Group

JANUARY 28, 2024

In times of crisis, a comprehensive business continuity plan ensures that every facet of the organization is resilient. Myth 2: Business Continuity Plans Are Only for Large Enterprises. Size doesn’t dictate the need for business continuity. Myth 5: Business Continuity is Too Expensive for Small Businesses.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

We need to continue to work with our IT Security and Cyber colleagues and play our part in preparedness by making sure there are cyber incident management plans in place, the plans are exercised, cyber response training is conducted, and our business continuity plans are up to date. Power outages.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

We need to continue to work with our IT Security and Cyber colleagues and play our part in preparedness by making sure there are cyber incident management plans in place, the plans are exercised, cyber response training is conducted, and our business continuity plans are up to date. Power outages.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

We need to continue to work with our IT Security and Cyber colleagues and play our part in preparedness by making sure there are cyber incident management plans in place, the plans are exercised, cyber response training is conducted, and our business continuity plans are up to date. Power outages.

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Erwood Group

MARCH 20, 2023

A disaster recovery plan is a set of procedures and protocols put in place to help a business recover from a disaster. Without a disaster recovery plan, a business can suffer significant financial losses and may even go out of business. employees, consultants) Loss of property (e.g. Consultation

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

As we are not yet out of the winter you may need to plan for snow When I am teaching people about business continuity, one of the events which I suggest could cause invocation of the business continuity plan is forecasted severe weather. Delay any work that could potentially lead to an accident or an outage 9.

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Erwood Group

APRIL 5, 2022

Due to the outage, he was unable to execute a trade to exit a position and lost $70,000.00 To celebrate April’s Financial Literacy Awareness month, I am offering a free consultation to help your business survive the next disaster and provide critical strategic steps to prepare, prevent and profit in an uncertain and unpredictable future.

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PagerDuty

JUNE 26, 2024

What I AM suggesting is that when combined with a well thought through strategy, a sprinkling of consultancy, and more than a smidge of PagerDuty muscle, you can get a lot closer to DORA compliance. This helps identify weaknesses and areas for improvement in the incident response plan.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. I worked for a German data centre provider and wrote a business continuity plan for them.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

The fire and impact: The fire OVHcloud had in their data centre campus in Strasburg, reminds us, that just because we have put our applications in place or have bought software that is hosted in the cloud, we are still vulnerable to IT outages. I worked for a German data centre provider and wrote a business continuity plan for them.

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Simulation and Training: How it Works: AI-driven simulations create realistic scenarios for training and testing business continuity plans. Application: Organizations use AI simulations to train personnel , identify weaknesses in plans, and improve overall preparedness for various scenarios.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 27, 2016

This week Charlie discusses the justification for business continuity and provides some examples of where his work has improved organisational resilience. The earthquake in Ecuador earlier this week has left me thinking about how many of the country’s businesses will survive and if many of them had business continuity plans in place?

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 27, 2016

This week Charlie discusses the justification for business continuity and provides some examples of where his work has improved organisational resilience. The earthquake in Ecuador earlier this week has left me thinking about how many of the country’s businesses will survive and if many of them had business continuity plans in place?

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 13, 2025

Business continuity planning assumptions are generally not developed to deal with the majority of staff being unavailable, including permanent and temporary staff. It is worth having a conversation as part of your business continuity planning to discuss this and put in some guidelines.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations Last Updated on June 4, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 26 minutes We all live in an unpredictable world. We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization.

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