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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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Sextortion scams surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, with attackers sending emails claiming to have hacked webcams or email accounts, demanding Bitcoin to delete the alleged footage. Activate the incident response plan (IRP) Having a pre-established incident response plan is critical.

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Security Vulnerability Cybersecurity Cyber Resilience 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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BCP Builder

JANUARY 20, 2025

Here are six essential scenarios: Cybersecurity Breach Test your incident response plan by simulating a data breach or ransomware attack. Health Crisis Test your readiness for a sudden health emergency, like a pandemic. Cons: Time-consuming and resource-intensive.

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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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Business Continuity Response Plan Continual Improvement Resilience 91

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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Cybersecurity Response Plan Vulnerability Alert 97

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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Resilience Management Response Plan Government 98

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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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

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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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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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

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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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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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.

Security 52

Security Emergency Planning Response Plan Audit 52

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.

Security 52

Security Emergency Planning Response Plan Audit 52

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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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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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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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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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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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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NexusTek

APRIL 30, 2020

Last week, concerts that we have attended was the main topic of discussion as well as a few questions around the strategy of the companys COVID-19 pandemic response plan. One of our leaders hosted a quarterly meeting recently through Teams and included a trivia game with the app Kahoot!

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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 organizations 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. You dont have an incident response plan.

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Cybersecurity Response Plan Vulnerability Alert 52

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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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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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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Tourism Entertainment Retail Sports 52

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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Transportation Pandemic Continuity Planning Resilience 52

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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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. Further, when we look at what’s happened during the pandemic, paired with increased cyber attacks, it paints a clear picture of industry evolution.

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Resilience Healthcare Impact Analysis Cybersecurity 52

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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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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All-Hazards Hazard Emergency Planning Outage 52

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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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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Business Continuity Resilience Pandemic Financial Services 52

MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

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. “You Still Need to Drill: IT/DR Testing Is as Important as Ever.” IT/DR testing is crucial for enabling organizations to verify that they can recover systems in the event of a disruption.

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Disaster Recovery Business Continuity Consulting BCM 98

MHA Consulting

MAY 11, 2023

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. “You Still Need to Drill: IT/DR Testing Is as Important as Ever.” IT/DR testing is crucial for enabling organizations to verify that they can recover systems in the event of a disruption.

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