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How Much Damage Do You Want to Incur From a Major Business Interruption?

Bernstein Crisis Management

MAY 24, 2021

Whether it’s an incident affecting a single location, or a pandemic sweeping the globe, business continuity is increasingly vulnerable to a wide variety of natural and man-made interruptions for which organizations must plan as carefully as they plan for launching any product or service.

Pandemic

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Weathering the Storm: Tips for Coping with a Disrupted Climate

MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And formerly tranquil areas are increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events. In this environment, prudent business continuity professionals will want to make sure their organizations are reassessing their weather-related risks and preparing accordingly.

Emergency Response

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Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

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. I agree—and in today’s blog I’m going to build on Michael’s post by laying out some of the common vulnerabilities I often see in working with clients of ours.

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BCPcast Episode 3 - We're All Human, We're All Vulnerable

The Business Continuity Podcast

AUGUST 18, 2016

In episode 3 of the BCPcast, we take a look at a comparatively new source of risk that has landed in the lap of many already-overworked continuity professionals: cyber. In episode 3 of the BCPcast, we take a look at a comparatively new source of risk that has landed in the lap of many already-overworked continuity professionals: cyber.

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These 8 Risk Domains Are the Meat and Potatoes of Risk Management

MHA Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2023

In today’s post, we’ll lay out what these domains are, reveal which ones tend to get overlooked, and explain how knowing about the domains can help business continuity professionals reduce their organizations’ risks and bolster their resilience.

Risk Management

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Cybersecurity Leadership: The Complete Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Security Team

Pure Storage

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Read on to learn the key qualities of successful cybersecurity leaders, how to build and retain a strong security team, strategies for fostering continuous professional growth, and methods to create a culture of security within your organization. The breach was partly due to a failure to apply known patches for a vulnerability.

Cybersecurity

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Who’s the Boss? Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership

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? I wish it were true.

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Optimizing Your BC Program for the Permanent Hybrid Work Model

MHA Consulting

APRIL 13, 2023

Business continuity professionals need to be sure their recovery plans and strategies are fully adapted to the new reality. Hybrid reduces some vulnerabilities and increases or creates others. The hybrid workplace model is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. Hybrid adds complexity.

BCM

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Business Continuity Software: What to Know Before You Buy

Castellan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This facilitates data-driven decision-making and enables modelling and “what if” type queries to help develop better business continuity strategies. Digitization also makes it much easier to highlight areas of vulnerability or non-compliance with internal and external policies and standards.

Business Continuity

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

There are many public-spirited professional groups and organizations focused on BC. Other BCM professionals. Business continuity professionals tend to be serious, responsible, helpful people who have a professional dedication toward minimizing outages and their impact for everyone.

BCM

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. A strategy involving a conscious decision to remain vulnerable to a potential harm, usually based on a cost-benefit analysis. The most vulnerable areas tend to be electrical power, data backups, and network connectivity.

Mitigation

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Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management

MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It’s enough to make an organization leader or business continuity professional feel unwell. In case you missed it, here they are again: Risk acceptance is a conscious decision to remain vulnerable to a potential harm, usually based on a cost-benefit analysis. And then keep it going.

Risk Management

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Zero Trust Security: What BC Practitioners Need to Know

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.

Security

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Managing Enterprise Risk: Understanding the 8 Risk Domains

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

What’s needed are probing, informed questions by people who respect the experience of the front-line workers and are determined to get to a true picture of the vulnerabilities they alone can identify. For good examples of this type of operational vulnerability, see “ Single Points of Failure: Protecting Yourself from Hanging by a Thread.”)

Management

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A BC Consultant’s View of the Risks of Generative AI

MHA Consulting

MAY 25, 2023

Even companies that do not use AI tools are likely to be vulnerable because suppliers of theirs almost certainly do use them. How can you as a business continuity professional help protect your organization against these threats? A detailed discussion will have to wait.

Risk Management

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A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life

Business Resilience Decoded

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Episode 124: A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. As business continuity professionals, we prepare for possible disasters that may strike the business world. Request a demo at [link] today!

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A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life

Business Resilience Decoded

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Episode 124: A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. As business continuity professionals, we prepare for possible disasters that may strike the business world. Request a demo at [link] today!

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Sports Authorization

Embedding BC for a More Resilient Future

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

One of the questions that came to mind for me was, did business continuity professionals identify that carbon dioxide was a key component of their company’s products and did they raise the alarm early? As business continuity managers, we should have done our key supplier analysis.

Resilience

Resilience Business Continuity Mitigation Impact Analysis

Embedding BC for a More Resilient Future

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

One of the questions that came to mind for me was, did business continuity professionals identify that carbon dioxide was a key component of their company’s products and did they raise the alarm early? As business continuity managers, we should have done our key supplier analysis.

Resilience

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

This week I look at the risk of a cyber-attack and the importance of reviewing your vulnerability to water, wastewater and electricity loss. 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.

Internet

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

This week I look at the risk of a cyber-attack and the importance of reviewing your vulnerability to water, wastewater and electricity loss. 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.

Internet

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Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 11, 2022

As a business continuity professional, it shows complete incompetence and lack of risk management, contingency planning and then implementation of that plan, in the face of the likelihood they would probably be needed. If the response wasn’t needed and the number of refugees was small, you could stand the contingency response down.

Management

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Defining RTOs – Help Needed

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 13, 2022

There are some single points of failure in terms of power distribution, and the generators are all situated close to the shoreline making them vulnerable to a storm surge. This is a much more fertile ground for a business continuity professional. This was the bread and butter of the business continuity profession pre-covid.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Consulting Resilience Continuity Professionals

Defining RTOs – Help Needed

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 13, 2022

There are some single points of failure in terms of power distribution, and the generators are all situated close to the shoreline making them vulnerable to a storm surge. This is a much more fertile ground for a business continuity professional. This was the bread and butter of the business continuity profession pre-covid.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Consulting Resilience Continuity Professionals

Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 11, 2022

As a business continuity professional, it shows complete incompetence and lack of risk management, contingency planning and then implementation of that plan, in the face of the likelihood they would probably be needed. If the response wasn’t needed and the number of refugees was small, you could stand the contingency response down.

Management

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A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life

Business Resilience Decoded

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Episode 124: A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life This episode is brought to you by Fusion Risk Management, Building a More Resilient World Together. As business continuity professionals, we prepare for possible disasters that may strike the business world. Request a demo at [link] today!

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Sports Authorization

Harvey and Irma – What can we learn?

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In the midst of hurricane season, Charlie advises business continuity professionals what they can learn from past hurricanes, in preparation for any future incidents. More extreme weather, combined with the rise in sea level, makes us all vulnerable to more extreme weather events caused by global warming.

Travel

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Harvey and Irma – What can we learn?

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In the midst of hurricane season, Charlie advises business continuity professionals what they can learn from past hurricanes, in preparation for any future incidents. More extreme weather, combined with the rise in sea level, makes us all vulnerable to more extreme weather events caused by global warming.

Travel

Travel Continuity Professionals Business Continuity Vulnerability

Business, Interrupted: The Resilience Movement and the New Normal for Business Continuity

Castellan

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Continuity. And, as a business continuity professional, have they changed in scope and complexity in the past year? Then over time as your program matures, you can focus on adding in additional details that help your organization identify or expose vulnerabilities for prioritization. Resilience. Moving Beyond Traditions.

Business Continuity

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Embedding BC for a More Resilient Future

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

One of the questions that came to mind for me was, did business continuity professionals identify that carbon dioxide was a key component of their company’s products and did they raise the alarm early? As business continuity managers, we should have done our key supplier analysis.

Resilience

Resilience Business Continuity Mitigation Impact Analysis

Defining RTOs – Help Needed

Plan B Consulting

JUNE 13, 2022

There are some single points of failure in terms of power distribution, and the generators are all situated close to the shoreline making them vulnerable to a storm surge. This is a much more fertile ground for a business continuity professional. This was the bread and butter of the business continuity profession pre-covid.

Business Continuity

Business Continuity Consulting Resilience Continuity Professionals

Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Plan B Consulting

MARCH 11, 2022

As a business continuity professional, it shows complete incompetence and lack of risk management, contingency planning and then implementation of that plan, in the face of the likelihood they would probably be needed. If the response wasn’t needed and the number of refugees was small, you could stand the contingency response down.

Management

Management Business Continuity Government Continuity Professionals

Fire and Rain: Adapting to an Era of Global Instability

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Our reliance on other countries for supplies and markets—and on lengthy, highly vulnerable global shipping routes—is too high. 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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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

The Disaster Recover y Institute International ( DRII ) and the Business Continuit y Institute ( BCI ) are the two major governing bodies that are responsible for defining and developing business continuity practices as well as certifying business continuity professionals.

Business Continuity

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

The Disaster Recover y Institute International ( DRII ) and the Business Continuit y Institute ( BCI ) are the two major governing bodies that are responsible for defining and developing business continuity practices as well as certifying business continuity professionals. IT applications changes. Vendors or third-party changes.

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How Much Damage Do You Want to Incur From a Major Business Interruption?

Weathering the Storm: Tips for Coping with a Disrupted Climate

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Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter

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Optimizing Your BC Program for the Permanent Hybrid Work Model

Business Continuity Software: What to Know Before You Buy

Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja

The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk

Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management

Zero Trust Security: What BC Practitioners Need to Know

Managing Enterprise Risk: Understanding the 8 Risk Domains

A BC Consultant’s View of the Risks of Generative AI

A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life

A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life

Embedding BC for a More Resilient Future

Embedding BC for a More Resilient Future

Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Defining RTOs – Help Needed

Defining RTOs – Help Needed

Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

A Business Continuity Framework You Can Use in Your Personal Life

Harvey and Irma – What can we learn?

Harvey and Irma – What can we learn?

Business, Interrupted: The Resilience Movement and the New Normal for Business Continuity

Embedding BC for a More Resilient Future

Defining RTOs – Help Needed

Managing incidents ‘on the back foot’ – Britain’s poor response to issuing visas to Ukrainian refugees

Fire and Rain: Adapting to an Era of Global Instability

Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

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