everbridge

JANUARY 10, 2025

For industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Energy and Utilities, Telecom, and Manufacturing, disruptions can have far-reaching effects. Operational resilience ensures: Business continuity even under adverse circumstances. In some industries, it could even lead to regulatory penalties.

Resilience 52

Resilience Financial Services Vulnerability Business Continuity 52

everbridge

MARCH 7, 2025

A leading automotive manufacturer implemented an AI-driven risk assessment tool across its suppliers, which helped identify and mitigate over 30 potential security vulnerabilities before they could impact production. This includes: Conducting regular crisis simulation exercises to improve response times.

Resilience 52

Resilience Security Emergency Response Emergency Response 52

MHA Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Dancing the Tango with Your Business Continuity Consultant The Pervasive Practice of “Inviting by Title” Today’s blog is about a fairly narrow situation but one that we encounter a lot as business continuity consultants.

BCM 97

BCM Consulting Business Continuity Disaster Recovery 97

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). A major fire affecting your only manufacturing site.

All-Hazards 52

All-Hazards Hazard Airlines Manufacturing 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). A major fire affecting your only manufacturing site.

All-Hazards 52

All-Hazards Hazard Airlines Manufacturing 52

Business Continuity Today

JUNE 1, 2021

It is critical to integrate supply chain resilience into your business continuity plan. Supply chain dependency is a critical issue for retail and manufacturing. Supply chain dependency is a critical issue for retail and manufacturing.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Retail Manufacturing Management 40

Business Continuity Today

JUNE 1, 2021

It is critical to integrate supply chain resilience into your business continuity plan. Supply chain dependency is a critical issue for retail and manufacturing. Supply chain dependency is a critical issue for retail and manufacturing.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Retail Manufacturing Management 40

MHA Consulting

MARCH 23, 2023

By adhering to the council’s guidelines, companies can implement best practices for risk management, cybersecurity, data protection, and business continuity planning. The FFIEC standard can be found here, and it’s completely free. Does trying to meet the rigorous FFIEC standard make sense for every organization? Not even close.

BCM 95

BCM Impact Analysis Business Continuity Banking 95

Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

One of the companies was a manufacturer who would like to conduct a live exercise rather than a desktop exercise that they have previously done. We don’t get to do many live exercises so I thought I would share some of my thoughts and see if any of you out there might be able give me some advice on planning and executing one!

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Business Continuity Continuity Planning Media 52

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 7, 2017

One of the companies was a manufacturer who would like to conduct a live exercise rather than a desktop exercise that they have previously done. We don’t get to do many live exercises so I thought I would share some of my thoughts and see if any of you out there might be able give me some advice on planning and executing one!

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Business Continuity Continuity Planning Media 52

Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

One of the companies was a manufacturer who would like to conduct a live exercise rather than a desktop exercise that they have previously done. We don’t get to do many live exercises so I thought I would share some of my thoughts and see if any of you out there might be able give me some advice on planning and executing one!

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Business Continuity Continuity Planning Media 52

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 7, 2017

One of the companies was a manufacturer who would like to conduct a live exercise rather than a desktop exercise that they have previously done. We don’t get to do many live exercises so I thought I would share some of my thoughts and see if any of you out there might be able give me some advice on planning and executing one!

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Business Continuity Continuity Planning Media 52

Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2016

What matters in business continuity terms is that we have lost key assets and we need to implement our business continuity plans to deal with the situation. Raw material going into a manufacturing process, are they ‘materials’ or as they are often supplied by third parties, ‘suppliers’?

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Business Continuity Hospitality Evaluation 52

Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2016

What matters in business continuity terms is that we have lost key assets and we need to implement our business continuity plans to deal with the situation. Raw material going into a manufacturing process, are they ‘materials’ or as they are often supplied by third parties, ‘suppliers’?

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Business Continuity Hospitality Evaluation 52

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 17, 2016

Where I feel business continuity is more unsure of itself is within industries such as manufacturing, oil, gas and chemicals, where they have all the PPRS issues but also the additional issue of an incident which doesn’t neatly fall into PPRS.

Emergency Response 52

Emergency Response Emergency Response Business Continuity Response Plan 52

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 17, 2016

Where I feel business continuity is more unsure of itself is within industries such as manufacturing, oil, gas and chemicals, where they have all the PPRS issues but also the additional issue of an incident which doesn’t neatly fall into PPRS.

Emergency Response 52

Emergency Response Emergency Response Business Continuity Response Plan 52

Erwood Group

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Our Forever Free Initiative by the Erwood Group is our way of addressing the perception that business continuity planning, contingency planning, and overall preparedness planning for business is too expensive and/or too complicated. This will provide greater and deeper insights to risk mapping to the business over time.

All-Hazards 10

All-Hazards Impact Analysis Hazard Manufacturing 10

everbridge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Infinite Blue was founded to help organizations reach total enterprise resilience which, oftentimes, requires effective Business Continuity Planning (BCP). A Case Study in Innovation We recently partnered with a major manufacturer that had previously conducted exercises that failed to bring meaningful changes to their recovery plans.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity BCP Outage All-Hazards 52

Security Industry Association

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Systems integrators secure education facilities, health care organizations, manufacturing plants, government buildings and utility facilities. A business impact analysis assesses the enterprise’s ability to recover from a disaster and should form the basis for a contingency or business continuity plan.

Cybersecurity 98

Cybersecurity Education Technology Security 98

KingsBridge BCP

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Whether in the manufacturing or service sector, it can be tough to determine how to shut down and restart the business. It could be an aspect of your computer system, a piece of manufacturing equipment, or something as simple as the desk in a high-traffic reception area. Like all things, change is inevitable.

BCP 52

BCP Manufacturing Media Outsourcing 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). A major fire affecting your only manufacturing site.

All-Hazards 40

All-Hazards Hazard Airlines Manufacturing 40

Fusion Risk Management

APRIL 5, 2023

Imagine a manufacturer losing revenue due to a cyberattack on just one of its suppliers. Similarly, manufacturing company Applied Materials did not proactively identify concentration risk and the impact on important business services of their operationally significant third parties.

Resilience 59

Resilience Banking Strategic Vulnerability 59

Fusion Risk Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In the case of a financial services company, their critical vendor might be the core processor; for a manufacturing company, it might be their top supplier. Establish guidelines and alerts for continuous monitoring. Critical vendors vary from industry to industry, company to company.

Outsourcing 52

Outsourcing Alert Financial Services Outage 52

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

When there is panic buying, it is very difficult for supermarkets to cope with the increased demand, even if there is plenty of the item manufactured. I am sure that supermarkets are getting in additional supply and manufacturers are ramping up production.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Capacity Retail Transportation 52

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

When there is panic buying, it is very difficult for supermarkets to cope with the increased demand, even if there is plenty of the item manufactured. I am sure that supermarkets are getting in additional supply and manufacturers are ramping up production.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Capacity Retail Transportation 52

Zerto

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It also denotes an organization’s ability to seamlessly adapt its operations to absorb shocks and thrive despite a continuously changing environment, whether the disruption is business, economic, social, environmental, or geo-strategic in nature. and partners involved in delivering goods and/or services.

Resilience 52

Resilience Cyber Resilience Disaster Recovery Strategic 52

KingsBridge BCP

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Here are 10 questions you should be asking yourself about your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) to ensure you’re prepared for COVID-19. Note that they are all just part of good business continuity planning for any business interruption. 10 questions to preparedness. 1 – Do we have a way to monitor attendance?

BCP 52

BCP Pandemic Outsourcing Authorization 52

Plan B Consulting

JULY 15, 2024

The research project found that, in many cases, existing business continuity plans were unsuitable for dealing with a cyber incident. The scenarios many organisations prepared for in their business continuity plans were for fires and floods but bore little resemblance to the impact of a cyber-attack.

Insurance 40

Insurance Insurance Continuity Planning Business Continuity 40

Solutions Review

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Microsoft is a multinational company that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells various software services and products. TierPoint helps clients deploy disaster recovery, connected data center, and cloud solutions for their overall business continuity plan.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Backup Failover Cloud Computing 98

Solutions Review

JANUARY 31, 2022

Microsoft is a multinational company that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells various software services and products. TierPoint helps clients deploy disaster recovery, connected data center, and cloud solutions for their overall business continuity plan.

Disaster Recovery 98

Disaster Recovery Backup Failover Cloud Computing 98

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As a family, we have four spare bottles for our soda stream to make fizzy water, so we are going to be fine during this crisis, but I suspect this is far more by luck than us having a very well prepared family business continuity plan.

Resilience 52

Resilience Business Continuity Mitigation Impact Analysis 52

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As a family, we have four spare bottles for our soda stream to make fizzy water, so we are going to be fine during this crisis, but I suspect this is far more by luck than us having a very well prepared family business continuity plan.

Resilience 52

Resilience Business Continuity Mitigation Impact Analysis 52

Risk Management Monitor

AUGUST 4, 2022

Create a detailed mapping of critical suppliers that includes manufacturers and service providers, such as freight forwarders, in order to assess catastrophic risk potential. For identified critical areas, create a business continuity plan that outlines the process to shift to another resource in a separate geographic area.

Logistics 45

Logistics Transportation Pandemic Capacity 45

Erwood Group

JULY 7, 2022

Business Continuity Strategies. Plan Development and Implementation. Business Continuity Plan Exercises, Assessment, and Maintenance. Addressing each of the areas named above as part of your business continuity program increases your ability as a business to recover and operate the business. Risk Assessment.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Impact Analysis Continuity Planning Communications 52

Castellan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The structured approach needed for business interruption risks is business continuity management – a process that analyzes an organization’s risk of business interruption and takes actions to reduce it. If it’s not a plan, what’s the outcome? Customer Demands?

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Management Activation Risk Management 40

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

As a family, we have four spare bottles for our soda stream to make fizzy water, so we are going to be fine during this crisis, but I suspect this is far more by luck than us having a very well prepared family business continuity plan.

Resilience 40

Resilience Business Continuity Mitigation Impact Analysis 40

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

Many organisations, especially those in oil and gas, manufacturing and transport industries, have emergency response plans in place. You might also have business continuity plans in place, but there is often a gap between where the emergency response plans end and the recovery can start.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Emergency Response Emergency Response Response Plan 40