MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Knowing what roles should be represented on the business continuity management (BCM) team and what kind of people should fill them is an overlooked key to success in making organizations resilient. The roles that should be represented on a company’s BCM team change over time depending on the maturity of the program.

BCM 91

BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Crisis Management 91

MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. For business continuity newcomers, few topics are as confusing as the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery.

Disaster Recovery 103

Disaster Recovery BCM Business Continuity Manufacturing 103

MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Recovering from a cyber incident such as a ransomware attack will require recovery of data and/or data processing equipment and devices. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. Due to the intricacies of this type of recovery, doing it ad hoc is to be avoided.

BCM 101

BCM Business Continuity Outage Business Recovery 101

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Be a Hard Target: Train Your Employees in Security Awareness A Uniquely Vulnerable Time In the context of business continuity, the recovery period is a vulnerable one for any organization. Ideally, this group will be aware of the need to integrate cyber security and business recovery.

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Security Outage Vulnerability Cybersecurity 86

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. An organization that would suffer a large impact as the result of an outage of two hours should be willing to tolerate very little risk. Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed.

Mitigation 75

Mitigation BCM Acceptable Risk Risk Management 75

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

Outage 80

Outage Airlines Consulting Vulnerability 80

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Unprecedented outages occur all the time. Be prepared for pushback by people who say there’s no point in rehearsing a workaround because the primary method for doing that particular task will never go down. You might need to put on your teacher hat to help your colleagues understand why practicing manual workarounds is important.

Entertainment 101

Entertainment Business Continuity Activation BCM 101