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All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources

MHA Consulting

We write a lot about BIAs in our blog and ebooks, and no wonder: the business impact analysis is the cornerstone of a sound business continuity program. It helps them prioritize which of their processes and systems they should protect the most and restore the fastest in order to minimize the impact of an outage on the organization.

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An Introduction to FFIEC: BCM’s Gold Standard

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It has greater governance, risk assessment, business impact analysis, planning, testing, and maintenance requirements than any other standard. FFIEC’s requirements are very stringent due to the critical role financial institutions play in the economy.

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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

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Sometimes the form business continuity management (BCM) is used. The activity of crisis management is also included under the umbrella though that tends to be treated separately.) The standard way of arriving at these targets is by conducting a BIA, or business impact analysis.)

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

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References to Crisis Management and Emergency Response plans. Since most businesses today are heavily IT reliant, DRP tends to focus on business data and information systems by addressing one or several points of failure including application downtime, network outages, hardware failure, data loss, etc.

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Risk Assessment, BIA, SLAs, RTOs, and RPOs: What’s the Link? MTD and MTDL

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Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. Differentiating Between Risk Assessment (RA) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA). What Is a Business Impact Analysis?

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More Than Meets the Eye: The Hidden Benefits of BC Planning 

MHA Consulting

We’ll look at examples pertaining to incident management, the business impact analysis (BIA), third-party vendors, risk assessments and exercises, and time and effort. Incident Management This first example holds true for several of our clients. It has to do with the activation and use of the incident management team.

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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

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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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