The Rand Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

pandemic response plans of the past were no match for a protracted nationwide health emergency. COVID-19 showed that the U.S. What lessons were learned that could help the United States effectively protect its population and other vital national interests going forward?

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BCP Builder

JULY 8, 2024

Incident Response Plan : Develop a detailed incident response plan that outlines steps to take in the event of a cyberattack, including communication protocols and data recovery procedures.

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BCP Builder

JULY 8, 2024

Incident Response Plan : Develop a detailed incident response plan that outlines steps to take in the event of a cyberattack, including communication protocols and data recovery procedures.

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Security Emergency Planning Response Plan Audit 52

everbridge

APRIL 29, 2022

Much of the discussion on and organization’s state of readiness for critical events focuses on the capabilities and planning of the enterprise. Emergency response planning is crucial, but even the most robust plan can’t cover all situations.

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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.

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Castellan

APRIL 6, 2022

From a business continuity perspective, this forces organizations, many of whom were already struggling with pandemic-related shortages and other supply issues, to think about temporarily or permanently replacing those suppliers. And that’s not just about response planning for what might happen if a network goes down or for data loss.

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NexusTek

JULY 28, 2021

67% of IT professionals believe the use of bring-your-own devices during the remote work of the pandemic has decreased their organization’s security health ; a claim which a Ponemon Institute survey supports : 68% of businesses experienced one or more successful endpoint attacks in the past 12 months.

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FS-ISAC

JUNE 30, 2022

There are several steps financial institutions can take to improve response time and ensure readiness when a crisis strikes. Develop an effective incident response plan and handling strategies. Incident response plans at financial institutions vary in maturity , but can always be improved.

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Castellan

MAY 16, 2022

While some companies sustained on-premises teams throughout the coronavirus pandemic—and some more have returned to that recently—many organizations still operate in a fully-remote or hybrid work environment. According to the BCM Compensation Report, only 6% of respondents anticipate that they will be 100% back in office post-pandemic.

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Castellan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

His experiences are among the many that organizations can draw from in our “new normal” in this post-pandemic world. In some cases, there’s a plan in place and other cases there’s just no plan. And f or many organizations, while not at the same scale of 9/11, pandemic response is fueling lessons-learned for what comes next. “I

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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. Crisis preparedness and response planning: Organizations must prioritize comprehensive crisis preparedness and response planning.

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everbridge

AUGUST 11, 2021

More than 2,800 senior executives in organizations of all sizes across 29 industries and 73 countries weighed in on their 2020 crisis response plans in PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC) annual impact survey. This is a valuable insight into resiliency planning, business operations, and the future of the workplace.

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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. Creating response plans, but not exercising them Dedicating time to exercise plans is critical You’ll find missing steps You’ll understand nuances with exercises. Here’s an example.

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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. At the top of the list is incident response plans and testing. Your incident response plans and playbooks—especially those you’ve tested and matured—are key to managing this chaos. Phishing schemes.

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Risk Management Monitor

MARCH 4, 2022

Some of the highlights below can help address key concerns that you—or your board—may have right now, and offer actionable strategies to strengthen your cyberrisk readiness and boost employee cyber hygiene: What Are You Doing About Ransomware?

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PagerDuty

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This commitment was called into practice over the past 22 months as frontline health care workers and organizations tended to the dual needs of the pandemic response and ensured the continuity of basic essential health care. In response to the growing disparities in vaccine access, we deployed $1.2M

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CCEM Strategies

MAY 10, 2023

They could include: avalanches pandemics/disease outbreaks earthquakes floods hazardous material spills landslides power outages extreme weather tsunamis wildfires Make an emergency plan Make sure you and your loved ones are on the same page about how you’ll respond to a disaster.

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Fusion Risk Management

OCTOBER 12, 2023

These events – whether civil or political unrest, trade disputes, economic sanctions, pandemics, or natural disasters – can have far-reaching implications on an organization’s employees, business operations, vendors and supply chain, and customers.

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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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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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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. Your local first responders are often willing to sit down and talk with businesses about preparedness and emergency response.

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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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everbridge

APRIL 27, 2023

Pandemics , epidemics, and disease outbreaks will become more frequent. As the world continues to be interconnected, pandemics and epidemics will affect how, when, and where employees can work as well as customer buying patterns. Global economic recessions will significantly alter business plans or cause failure.

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Castellan

AUGUST 31, 2022

It’s got to be muscle memory, and you’ve got to have the right incident response plan. We have always been concerned about it, but with the pandemic happening we certainly, like everyone else, [saw] kind of a surge of attempts of fraud and cybersecurity. You’ve got to have automation that quarantines automatically. DOWNLOAD NOW.

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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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LogisManager

MARCH 19, 2024

According to an INTERPOL report , between January and April 2020, there was a significant increase in malicious cyber activities attributed to the pandemic shift to WFH. This may include security measures like firewalls, encryption, and access controls, as well as employee training and incident response plans.

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Common Data Breaches Caused by Third-Party Vendors Phishing and ransomware attacks have been spiking, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the number of employees working from home soared. Therefore, incident response plans are critical. Saudi Aramco claims that a flaw at a third party caused the intrusion.

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Castellan

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Has the coronavirus pandemic altered the way you approach these for business? This is one of the many positive changes for resiliency post-pandemic for many organizations. “I I think COVID showed us that the scope and depth of some of our planning needed to be wider and deeper,” Crask said. “I

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LogisManager

MARCH 19, 2024

According to an INTERPOL report , between January and April 2020, there was a significant increase in malicious cyber activities attributed to the pandemic shift to WFH. This may include security measures like firewalls, encryption, and access controls, as well as employee training and incident response plans.

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Swan Island Network

APRIL 30, 2020

As the global pandemic caused by COVID-19 (coronavirus) becomes more controllable, we face a unique problem. Follow these steps and you will be more able to craft an effective response plan and execute it quickly. 5 Ways to Improve Your Economic Recovery Results Quickly. Pete O'Dell. May 1, 2020. Share on facebook.

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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. S1E2 – No People, Building, Systems or Suppliers. FYI: this 4-issue approach we use is a simple and remarkably effective way to build your BCP!

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Fusion Risk Management

MARCH 1, 2022

your operations), you can then reliably build plans to maintain resilience and rehearse your ability to withstand severe (or extreme) but plausible realities. Evaluate your most critical third parties and ensure you have a resilient risk response plan.

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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. S1E2 – No People, Building, Systems or Suppliers. FYI: this 4-issue approach we use is a simple and remarkably effective way to build your BCP!

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Online Computers

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Despite the fact that numerous specialists had recognized the need for cybersecurity awareness training even before the pandemic, recent data revealed this worrisome trend: human error is behind 85% of data breaches. It’s therefore critical that your security team has an effective response plan in place if the company’s defenses fail.

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Castellan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

According to the 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report , there are the top five events that led to business continuity response and recovery plan initiation in 2020: Pandemic/disease: 79% Power outages: 49% Hurricanes: 38% Fire/wildfires: 35% Cyber-attacks: 29%.

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Castellan

JANUARY 10, 2022

If you haven’t done so already, check out part one of this blog series , where we discuss what that looks like and how continuity and resilience professionals can work closely with their boards and executives to keep the momentum going forward post-pandemic. This is where having a strong ERM is important.

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