Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This system would also assist in less obvious impacts, such as a computer outage affecting specific applications. The post Damage Assessment Traffic Lights appeared first on PlanB Consulting. These should be aligned across the organisation, ensuring that one department’s ‘amber’ does not correspond to another’s ‘green’.

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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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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. NHS Glasgow computer outage appeared first on PlanB Consulting. With staff unable to access records and scans, treatments such as chemotherapy were called off. The post Computer says no!

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Staff were having to manually enter the records written over the days of the outage and tried their best to re-arrange appointments. NHS Glasgow computer outage appeared first on PlanB Consulting. With staff unable to access records and scans, treatments such as chemotherapy were called off. The post Computer says no!

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Outage Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Education 52

BCP Builder

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These could range from natural disasters like floods and earthquakes to more specific risks like power outages, data breaches, or supply chain issues. BCP Builder offers access to a network of qualified consultants who can provide personalized guidance to ensure your business continuity plan meets the highest standards.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Be a Hard Target: Train Your Employees in Security Awareness A Uniquely Vulnerable Time In the context of business continuity, the recovery period is a vulnerable one for any organization. Addresses the use of outside services such as those from Microsoft and Google or outside experts such as consultants.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Take, for example, an IT outage due to a cyberattack. Furthermore, a plan needs to be available to guide employees through a Plan B if an outage occurs. One of Everbridge’s customers, Arup , is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists who offer a broad range of services.

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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. Building a relationship with these knowledgeable and dedicated folks ahead of time can make all the difference when and if you experience an outage or disaster.

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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. The Auckland power outage took place in the central district from 19th February to 27th March, 1998.

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Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 52

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. The Auckland power outage took place in the central district from 19th February to 27th March, 1998.

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Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 52

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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BCM Business Continuity Consulting Resilience 105

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. Related on MHA Consulting: BCM Basics: Modern IT/DR Strategies The Benefits of a Sound Business Continuity Strategy A solid BC strategy is a fundamental component of a functional BC program.

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Business Continuity BCM Disaster Recovery Outage 98

PagerDuty

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Benefit: Maintains cloud infrastructure consistency, minimizing the risk of configuration drift, which can lead to unexpected outages or security vulnerabilities. Benefit: Ensures uninterrupted, secure communication and prevents service outages due to expired SSL certificates, safeguarding customer trust and service reliability.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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Outage Airlines Consulting BCM 97

Zerto

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With the global surge in cybercrime—particularly ransomware attacks —and occasional outages of cloud services , enterprise risk management is just the latest initiative that needs attention. The ripple effects lasted 4400% longer than the outage itself. Customers, as well as internal team members, were severely impacted.

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Activation Backup Outage Authentication 114

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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Vulnerability BCM Capacity Outage 98

On Solve

JANUARY 14, 2022

Failing To Plan Is Planning To Fail, Forrester Consulting, October 2021 2. Failing To Plan Is Planning To Fail, Forrester Consulting, October 2021 3. Failing To Plan Is Planning To Fail, Forrester Consulting, October 2021 4. The average cost of an unplanned data center outage is $9,000 per minute, according to a Ponemon Study.

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Business Continuity Benchmark Consulting Outage 98

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: Navigating Resilience: How to Create a BCM Roadmap A Distinction With a Difference Most people are familiar with the phrase, “That’s a distinction without a difference,” used to assert that a supposed difference between two things is so trivial as not to be worth mentioning.

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BCM Business Continuity Resilience Outage 105

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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. Unprecedented outages occur all the time. This is to be commended.

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Entertainment Business Continuity Activation BCM 111

MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: The Write Stuff: How to Create and Maintain Business Continuity Documentation Five Ways BC Documentation Can Go Wrong An organization can reap myriad benefits by documenting its business continuity or IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) program in the form of written recovery plans.

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BCM Business Continuity Outage Business Recovery 105

MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Mark My Words: Commonly Confused Business Continuity Terms Two Fundamental Terms One of the most common BC-related internet searches is by people trying to learn the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery. The larger point is, this is the zone where BC and IT/DR meet.

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Disaster Recovery BCM Business Continuity Manufacturing 111

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. The Auckland power outage took place in the central district from 19th February to 27th March, 1998.

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Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 40

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Know Your Gaps: Manage Residual Risk to Keep Your Company Safe Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. The post The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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Mitigation BCM Acceptable Risk Risk Management 95

MHA Consulting

MARCH 23, 2023

However, companies that need to be able to demonstrate a high level of recovery capability and competency—and where outages of even a couple of hours have the potential to cause serious impacts to the organization’s revenue, reputation, and stakeholders—would likely benefit greatly from learning about FFIEC and trying to meet its requirements.

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BCM Impact Analysis Business Continuity Banking 95

MHA Consulting

JULY 7, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources We business continuity professionals spend a lot of time telling our colleagues and clients about the negative impacts an organization can experience if it gives short shrift to the need to become resilient and plan for outages.

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Airlines Outage Crisis Management Transportation 52

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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All-Hazards Hazard Business Continuity Mitigation 98

MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: The ABCs of ERM: The Rise of Enterprise Risk Management The government recently announced the official end of the COVID pandemic. This makes this an opportune moment to remind everyone that there are five types of risk—and that the prudent organization takes all of them into account.

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Pandemic Mitigation Risk Management Strategic 98

everbridge

MARCH 6, 2025

Assess risks and threat scenarios Evaluate the risks that pose the greatest threat to your critical services, such as cyberattacks, power outages, or pandemic-related disruptions. Identify critical dependencies Identify dependencies on information and communication technology, functions/processes, supply chain and critical third parties.

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Resilience Financial Services Banking Manufacturing 52

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Here are some examples of vulnerabilities that can exist at facilities even after risk mitigation controls have been implemented: The backup power source can provide only a fraction of the power needed to keep critical operations running in the event of an outage.

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Mitigation Authorization Risk Management Risk Reduction 97

Assurance IT

JUNE 15, 2021

Protection Against Failed Hard Drives Protection Against Power Outages Recovery if Operating System Fails. You can book a free consultation call here to learn more about what’s best for your enterprise. While losing your data can be prevented, it can have serious consequences in your enterprise. What’s The Difference?

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Backup Disaster Recovery Outage Business Continuity 91

MHA Consulting

MARCH 9, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja Why the BIA Is Important The business impact analysis or BIA is one of the topics Richard Long and I write about the most here on “Roadmap to Resiliency.” In today’s post, we list, link to, and describe MHA’s best BIA resources. Free Ebook Your BIA Action Guide.

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Impact Analysis BCM Consulting Business Continuity 98

MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Roll with the Changes: A New Generation Requires a New Approach to BCM It is comforting to think that if we master one set of marketable skills, we’ll be able to make a living from them for the rest of our careers; however, recent history shows that option is no longer available (if it ever was).

BCM 98

BCM Business Continuity Outage Internet 98

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. However, we’re finding that with ransomware, network outages, and all the rest of our contemporary challenges, the need to have documented, tested manual workaround procedures is greater than ever. I wish them the best.

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Outage BCM Internet Healthcare 52

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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Data Recovery Disaster Recovery Backup Outage 98

Zerto

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Zerto is sold almost exclusively through our network of consulting partners and managed service providers. DRaaS doesn’t just drive disaster recovery management for an MSP but increases the overall confidence of customers using the services when they are assured of low RPOs and RTOs against any type of outage or disruption.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Outage Technology Security 98

MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

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. The past couple of decades have seen huge changes in the world and our field. The “What, Me Worry?” approach to cybersecurity.

BCM 98

BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Internet 98

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

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?

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