MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Talks about the need for business to be prepared for three types of hazards, natural, human-caused, and technology-related. There are many public-spirited professional groups and organizations focused on BC. Other BCM professionals. Prepare My Business for an Emergency. Another excellent DHS website.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Simple: Take a good at where they are vulnerable to disruptions to their people, processes, and technology due to geopolitical forces, focusing in particular on threats pertaining to supply chain, cyber, and finance.

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Castellan

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

If you ask many business continuity professionals, their career paths were far from straight and direct. Few, like other professions, pursued a business continuity degree, graduated college, and landed a business continuity role right out of the gate.

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Business Continuity Today

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Training and certification programs help new professionals fine-tune their skills, and many software products provide assistance. Professional accreditations, certificates, and college degrees are available for business continuity professionals.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 25, 2023

These days everyone is talking about the risks of generative AI technology such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool. In today’s blog, we’ll look at those risks from the point of view of a business consultant who specializes in technology and IT disaster recovery. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Educate yourself.

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Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For business continuity professionals, the goal is to protect the organization’s continuity of operations. Third-party management, for example, is not just about onboarding vendors, but also assessing them and understanding the vendor risks so that your organization can continue to deliver products and services, no matter what.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This week Charlie discusses Storm Arwen, the cycle of lessons following an incident and why business continuity professionals need to keep an eye on incidents at all times. I think our role as business continuity professionals is to keep our eye on contemporary incidents and take the time to seek out the lessons.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This week Charlie discusses Storm Arwen, the cycle of lessons following an incident and why business continuity professionals need to keep an eye on incidents at all times. I think our role as business continuity professionals is to keep our eye on contemporary incidents and take the time to seek out the lessons.

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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. Time spent identifying and closing gaps in the organization’s preparedness is an investment that brings exceptional returns.

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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. It’s a passwordless solution that validates would-be users through several layers of technology to make sure they are who they say they are.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 6, 2019

Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 5 minutes There is something that bothers many Management Consultants in the Business Continuity and Information Technology field. They provide invaluable services for organizations with limited Information Technology resources.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 6, 2019

There is something that bothers many Management Consultants in the Business Continuity and Information Technology field. Have you tried to search for the terms “Business Continuity” or “ Business Continuity Planning ” on Google or Bing search engines recently? Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Operational: Risks related to day-to-day business processes, systems, and resources (internal, external, technology, equipment, and people) to ensure smooth operations and service delivery. BC professionals should also devise recommendations to mitigate the risks they identify. Critical to BC.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This week Charlie discusses Storm Arwen, the cycle of lessons following an incident and why business continuity professionals need to keep an eye on incidents at all times. I think our role as business continuity professionals is to keep our eye on contemporary incidents and take the time to seek out the lessons.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I think with cyber threats and power outages being the focus of the moment, occupying us business continuity folks, we have forgotten about a good old threat: the computer outage. I’d like to share a few thoughts with you as I reflect on the NATS incident: I never believe anyone who says it couldn’t happen, especially technology personnel.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For these reasons, it’s important that IT departments (and business continuity professionals) make sure their organizations are capable of restoring their IT services after an outage. Prioritize your services and technologies so you know which to restore first. Test across all the different technologies.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 15, 2020

So why is it so darn hard to engage an Information Technology (IT) organization (internal or external) in any business continuity planning activities? I spoke with many Business Continuity Professionals, and this seems to be the case in many organizations. It’s happening everywhere! IT is (still) excluded!

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 15, 2020

So why is it so darn hard to engage an Information Technology (IT) organization (internal or external) in any business continuity planning activities? . I spoke with many Business Continuity Professionals, and this seems to be the case in many organizations. It’s happening everywhere! IT is (still) excluded!

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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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Castellan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Business Continuity Management Enterprise Risk Management BCM addresses the development of strategies, plans and actions which provide risk reduction opportunities, response frameworks and alternative modes of operation for critical business processes and technologies. Going Forward.

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Castellan

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Continuity. And, as a business continuity professional, have they changed in scope and complexity in the past year? It’s going beyond traditional known threats such as severe weather events or technology failures. Resilience. If you were asked to define these words, what do they mean to you?

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Castellan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s a catchphrase many of us have used, especially business continuity professionals who have successfully conquered the latest disruption or disaster and played a key role in leading an organization to a return to normal. Business as usual.

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The Failover Plan Podcast

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Episode Summary: This week, we ask the question: "During COVID-19, which books would be valuable to discover, or rediscover, to help my professional career?" So we talk with Eric Anez, the Global Head of Business Resilience at Finastra, a financial technology company based in London.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this. He then saw the attempt to increase the sodium hydroxide content and was able to stop the attacker before the composition of the towns water industry was altered.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this. He then saw the attempt to increase the sodium hydroxide content and was able to stop the attacker before the composition of the towns water industry was altered.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 28, 2025

Next week, I am going to be taking part in Databarracks wargame entitled Defending Deepfaked and Disinformation, and so I thought in todays bulletin I would share a few of my thoughts on the subject, and what we as business continuity professionals should be aware of. The post What Are Deepfakes, And Should I Be Worried About Them?

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We, as business continuity professionals, should think about how we would deal with a similar situation. I was reading an article in The Economist Magazine recently, which said advances in video technology and CGI has led to videos being faked as well as photos. You just have to accept that they will never be persuaded.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 4, 2017

We, as business continuity professionals, should think about how we would deal with a similar situation. I was reading an article in The Economist Magazine recently, which said advances in video technology and CGI has led to videos being faked as well as photos. You just have to accept that they will never be persuaded.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Regardless of their nature, weather-related events that cause havoc in our communities, pandemics that can wipe us out, or cyber-related incidents that can potentially shut-down our technology, these events require us to be more resilient. Why did we write this guide?

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Regardless of their nature, weather-related events that cause havoc in our communities, pandemics that can wipe us out, or cyber-related incidents that can potentially shut-down our technology, these events require us to be more resilient. Technological disruptions (loss of data centers, data breaches or other IT security-related incidents).

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