BCP Builder

JANUARY 20, 2025

The key to resilience lies in preparationand thats where business continuity exercises come in. These exercises help organisations test, refine, and strengthen their business continuity plans (BCPs) to ensure theyre ready for anything. Health Crisis Test your readiness for a sudden health emergency, like a pandemic.

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On Solve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

With the help of Confucius, Dr. Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. A BR/CM/CC/DR plan exercise validates the plan and procedures, tests/trains responders in simulated real conditions and provides feedback to the plan developers and responders.

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eBRP

JANUARY 14, 2025

To build an Adaptive, Resilient Enterprise , organizations must move beyond conventional Business Continuity Management (BCM) approaches. Traditional BCM is often limited to tactical response plans, perceived simply as insurance policies that rarely spark high-level executive engagement.

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On Solve

MARCH 15, 2022

That means business continuity leaders like you must be able to communicate and execute crisis response plans quickly and effectively. Whether it’s severe weather, civil unrest, workplace violence or pandemic complications, new risks are always on the horizon. Another COVID variant is causing a spike in cases. View the ebook.

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Castellan

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

These are among the many topics dominating news stories, especially since the outbreak of the pandemic two years ago. This, at its heart, is cyber resilience—a critical, but often-overlooked component of resilience management. That’s why cyber resilience is so important. Get The The Cyber Response Builder.

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FEI

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This coordinated response not only allowed for planning discussions to occur but also for team members to provide quick check-ins on their stress. When the COVID-19 pandemic was initially identified as a crisis, our emergency and incident response teams were functioning in their usual brick-and-mortal locations.

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Castellan

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

While this has well been the case for the last several years, it’s certainly ever-more true in our post-pandemic world. As we reflect on lessons learned from our pandemic and multi-event response protocols, we can find many opportunities to improve business continuity practices to further solidify resilience.

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Fusion Risk Management

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In an increasingly interconnected world, organizations with a global presence face a unique set of challenges when it comes to maintaining resilience during geopolitical events. Crisis and Incident Response Geopolitical events often necessitate the activation of emergency response and crisis response plans.

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everbridge

APRIL 27, 2023

It is no surprise that resilience has become a frequently identified trait for success. McKinsey stated , “To thrive in the coming decade, companies must develop resilience—the ability to withstand unpredictable threat or change and then to emerge stronger. However, how can organizations measure their resilience in the first place?

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everbridge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Natural disasters, pandemics, cybersecurity events, and other crises have wrought devastation on communities worldwide, leading many to question whether the hazard environment is changing for the worse. It also begs the question, where should resilience professionals focus?

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Castellan

JUNE 10, 2021

Cyber attackers know organizations of all sizes have made a lot of operational changes because of the coronavirus pandemic, and they’re taking full advantage of them as new cyber attack vectors. So, what does this mean for operational resilience? Cyber resilience and operational resilience are emerging hand-in-hand.

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Castellan

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Resilience. Has the coronavirus pandemic altered the way you approach these for business? The Resilience Movement. Resilience may very well be a top catchphrase of 2021, but it’s more than that because business leaders are more concerned than ever with overcoming the next major obstacle. Continuity. The New Normal. “I

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Castellan

AUGUST 24, 2021

Resilience is all about the ability to recover quickly when faced with a challenge. For businesses, resilience is often tied directly to business continuity, where professionals are tasked with ensuring an organization can quickly adjust, adapt, respond, and recover from disruptions and disasters. What is Cyber Resilience?

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Fusion Risk Management

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For those of us in the resilience field, it was a common goal after disruption not to return to normal, but rather to a ‘new normal’: one where we had learnt from our mistakes and built a more robust operating model, possibly in a new direction of business. . The Return of the Resilience Industry.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

We are living in a golden age in terms of the easy availability of high-quality information on how organizations can make themselves more resilient. Contains links to toolkits for preparing for different hazards as well as pages on Emergency Response Plans, Crisis Communications Plans, Incident Management, IT/DR, and much more.

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Fusion Risk Management

MARCH 8, 2022

The increased cost of transport and the rising price of raw materials – in conjunction with existing issues already exacerbated by the global pandemic – could lead to new shortages, additional delays getting products to port to help repair products, or extremely high costs.

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BCP Builder

JULY 8, 2024

Infrastructure Improvements : Invest in resilient infrastructure and systems that can withstand natural disasters, such as reinforced buildings and flood defenses. Collaboration with Authorities : Build strong relationships with local law enforcement and emergency services to ensure a coordinated response during an active shooter situation.

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BCP Builder

JULY 8, 2024

Infrastructure Improvements : Invest in resilient infrastructure and systems that can withstand natural disasters, such as reinforced buildings and flood defenses. Collaboration with Authorities : Build strong relationships with local law enforcement and emergency services to ensure a coordinated response during an active shooter situation.

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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a CEO or CIO of an organization, it’s irresponsible at this point not to have a proven ransomware response plan. The ability to recover should be a focal point of any security plan. As a CEO or CIO of an organization, it’s irresponsible at this point not to have a proven ransomware response plan.

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KingsBridge BCP

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In this edition of the “Shield your Business from CHAOS” podcast, we discuss the No People, No Building, No Systems, No Suppliers response planning method. S1E10 – Business Resilience. Tired of Business Continuity Planning changing its name? S1E11 – How COVID changed BCP (part 1).

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

These events could be man-made (industrial sabotage, cyber-attacks, workplace violence) or natural disasters (pandemics, hurricanes, floods), etc. Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. Instructions about how to use the plan end-to-end, from activation to de-activation phases.

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Castellan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

We’re seeing an increase in multiple disruptions managed simultaneously, thanks in large part to the long-lasting impacts of the pandemic. This is where shifting focus from plan-based approaches to one that’s resilience management focused is so important. Get The Crisis Management Plan Template. That’s not surprising.

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FS-ISAC

JUNE 30, 2022

Specified goals vary by jurisdiction, but the main aims are to be able to leverage public sector resources in mitigation and attribution, as well as to encourage more robust operational resiliency. There are several steps financial institutions can take to improve response time and ensure readiness when a crisis strikes.

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Castellan

AUGUST 31, 2022

Cyber Resilience. Cyber resilience was a key point of conversation in episode seven with Jim Kastle , chief information security officer of Kimberly-Clark. He shared his thoughts about how the approach to cyber response has changed over the years. Get the Getting Started with Resilience Management Guide. DOWNLOAD NOW.

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Castellan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

But post COVID-19, what exactly is “ business as usual ” and how has it shaped what that means for continuity and resilience professionals around the globe? His experiences are among the many that organizations can draw from in our “new normal” in this post-pandemic world. Every crisis I’ve faced has been different,” Knafo explains. “In

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Fusion Risk Management

JUNE 13, 2022

Since the start of the global pandemic, we’ve seen global political instability, war, an increase in cyber and ransomware attacks, supply chain disruptions – including shortages of critical commodities like food and baby formula, increasingly frequent and severe climate incidents, inflation, recession and on and on.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

Unexpected disaster recovery exercises are better for testing an organization’s readiness and resilience, and rigorous post-test analysis helps to close any gaps in preparation. The COVID-19 pandemic led many organizations to suspend their IT/disaster recovery (DR) testing programs, but it is important to keep up with such testing.

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MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

Unexpected disaster recovery exercises are better for testing an organization’s readiness and resilience, and rigorous post-test analysis helps to close any gaps in preparation. The COVID-19 pandemic led many organizations to suspend their IT/disaster recovery (DR) testing programs, but it is important to keep up with such testing.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It also has to be noted that a plan for dealing with the loss of a building is very different to a cyber response plan and dealing with a reputational issue. The pandemic has shown us that incidents will come along which we haven’t prepared for and which we don’t have contingency plans in place for.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It also has to be noted that a plan for dealing with the loss of a building is very different to a cyber response plan and dealing with a reputational issue. The pandemic has shown us that incidents will come along which we haven’t prepared for and which we don’t have contingency plans in place for.

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Fusion Risk Management

MARCH 1, 2022

The Bank of England, as part of their operational resilience policy statement , continually outlined the need for institutions to ensure that they can continue to deliver their important business services during severe (or extreme) but plausible scenarios. So, what is the current reality related to the conflict in Ukraine?

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Organizations that implement a backup strategy with cyber resilience at the core can enable restores that are fast, predictable, reliable and cost-effective – at scale. That is why it is so important to test your plans and recovery and make the business a large part of that effort to ensure something small doesn’t become an issue.“

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KingsBridge BCP

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In this edition of the “Shield your Business from CHAOS” podcast, we discuss the No People, No Building, No Systems, No Suppliers response planning method. S1E10 – Business Resilience. Tired of Business Continuity Planning changing its name? S1E11 – How COVID changed BCP (part 1).

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Pure Storage

APRIL 26, 2022

The pandemic has thrown the need for improved public health services into sharp focus. In Miami, data is being used to inform resiliency plans , map coastline changes, and identify energy use patterns. ” Data-drill Disaster Planning. Smart City Data Trends . Building Healthcare Ecosystems.

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KingsBridge BCP

MAY 12, 2023

S2E5 - Rethinking Resilience Roswitha has Mark Armour back to discuss resilience; the language, how we describe it, our perception and how to incorporate it into your BCP efforts. In this edition of the "Shield your Business from CHAOS" podcast, we discuss the No People, No Building, No Systems, No Suppliers response planning method.

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Assurance IT

MAY 25, 2021

A global pandemic is as bad as it can get, when it comes to directly impacting human lives. Hornung, the founder of Xact IT Solutions, a cybersecurity firm gave some advice for business leaders and said, “… incident response planning is critical and should be part of every organization’s business plan.

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Castellan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

While it’s a great time to celebrate all of the hard work business continuity, disaster response, and incident management teams do year round, it’s also a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness throughout your organization about the valuable role these programs play in ensuring operational resilience, which is a big win for everyone.

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