Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations. Regardless of their nature, weather-related events that cause havoc in our communities, pandemics that can wipe us out, or cyber-related incidents that can potentially shut-down our technology, these events require us to be more resilient. ARTICLE SECTIONS.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity BCM Impact Analysis BCP 52

Castellan

JUNE 15, 2021

BC Management recently released its 2021 Business Continuity Management Event Impact Report in partnership with Witt O’Brien’s. Current and Future Focus for Business Continuity Events. Some of that hesitation could be because of a mixed understanding of what business continuity actually looks like as a managed service.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Management Pandemic Outage 52

CCEM Strategies

APRIL 17, 2017

However, an emergency will set off a chain reaction bringing pieces of your business to a halt and the dominoes scattered on the ground. If the last one falls your business could be finished. A Business Continuity Plan is designed to keep your lights on, the doors open, and your customers satisfied during an emergency.

Continuity Planning 52

Continuity Planning Business Continuity All-Hazards Hazard 52

everbridge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Disaster Recovery vs. Business Continuity Planning. While it may seem like a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan are the same, businesses must consider their differences. A successful business continuity plan must begin with the development of each smaller supporting facet.

Disaster Recovery 131

Disaster Recovery BCP Continuity Planning Outage 131

MHA Consulting

AUGUST 31, 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. People new to our field are often puzzled by one of its key terms: “continuity.” As the headline on the page explains, we provide “Business continuity consulting for today’s leading companies.”

BCM 90

BCM Business Continuity Consulting Resilience 90

MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Having quality documentation is an important part of a sound business continuity management program, but it’s not the most important part. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. It helps organizations identify gaps, train their teams, and respond effectively during outages.

BCM 101

BCM Business Continuity Outage Business Recovery 101

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Most organizations recognize the importance of having a sound business continuity recovery plan, but many plans are undermined by the presence of overlooked weaknesses. In today’s post, we’ll look at 10 mistakes that companies commonly make in developing and implementing their BC plans.

Outage 80

Outage Airlines Consulting Vulnerability 80

FS-ISAC

JUNE 30, 2022

We spoke with MassMutual CISO Ariel Weintraub about how firms need to go beyond third-party risk management to focus on supply chain resiliency, and the different thinking required to effectively build it. You cannot define your own resiliency based on the assumed resiliency of another component in the supply chain.

Resilience 52

Resilience Failover Financial Services Cyber Resilience 52

Fusion Risk Management

APRIL 5, 2023

In today’s world, organizations face unprecedented challenges that require a new approach to resilience. Organizations that embrace, invest in, and elevate resilience as a strategic priority are able to more proactively sense issues, analyze vulnerabilities, and adapt to the evolving environment. million customers.

Resilience 59

Resilience Strategic Banking Vulnerability 59

Castellan

JUNE 10, 2021

So, what does this mean for operational resilience? Some may ask if cyber events are the next big threat for business continuity, but the statistics demonstrate the threat is already here and now. Cyber resilience and operational resilience are emerging hand-in-hand. DOWNLOAD NOW. Critical Systems and Applications.

Resilience 52

Resilience Healthcare Cybersecurity Impact Analysis 52

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. Business Continuity Manager: The individual with direct responsibility for the business continuity program.

BCM 91

BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Crisis Management 91

MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. It’s a practical, down-to-earth approach that focuses on small things, but it has the power to bring big gains to an organization’s resilience,” he wrote. This is fine.

Vulnerability 85

Vulnerability Outage Capacity BCM 85

Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. Savvy organizational leaders employ corporate strategies such as disaster recovery and business continuity to nimbly navigate through such emergencies and maintain functionality in the face of disasters. What is a Business Continuity Plan?

BCP 82

BCP Disaster Recovery Impact Analysis Continuity Planning 82

MHA Consulting

MARCH 23, 2023

FFIEC in our industry is best known for providing the business continuity management standard that U.S. All of these standards are valuable, well-regarded tools that are capable of helping organizations become more resilient. financial institutions are required to meet.

BCM 74

BCM Impact Analysis Business Continuity Banking 74

MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. Right now, the pace of change in the broader society is as fast as I’ve ever seen it, and that looks to continue for the foreseeable future. Operational resilience. I’ll explain what that is at the end.

BCM 92

BCM Business Continuity Outage Internet 92

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 27, 2021

In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability matters, and how to build a holistic observability solution. Increase resiliency. In the following sections, we show you the steps we took to improve system resiliency for our example company.

Architecture 74

Architecture Resilience Application Backup 74

Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

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. What’s the Difference Between Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment? What Is Risk Assessment?

Disaster Recovery 52

Disaster Recovery Impact Analysis Outage Business Continuity 52

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

I felt the first bulletin of this year should look forward to what I see are the issues for business continuity professionals over the next year. Cyber attacks will continue unabated but perhaps aimed at less well-known organisations. Power outages. So, what do we have to look forward to (or not)? Weather extremes.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Continuity Professionals Mitigation Outage 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 27, 2016

This week Charlie discusses the justification for business continuity and provides some examples of where his work has improved organisational resilience. For a long time I asked many people, ‘where are the case studies which prove that business continuity works’? They are now much more resilient.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Logistics Consulting 40

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 27, 2016

This week Charlie discusses the justification for business continuity and provides some examples of where his work has improved organisational resilience. For a long time I asked many people, ‘where are the case studies which prove that business continuity works’? They are now much more resilient.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Logistics Consulting 40

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

For the first bulletin of the year, I felt it should look forward to what I see are the issues for business continuity professionals over the next year. Cyber attacks will continue unabated but perhaps aimed at less well-known organisations. Power outages. Weather extremes. Global recession. Strikes and labour issues.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Continuity Professionals Mitigation Outage 52

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

I felt the first bulletin of this year should look forward to what I see are the issues for business continuity professionals over the next year. Cyber attacks will continue unabated but perhaps aimed at less well-known organisations. Power outages. So, what do we have to look forward to (or not)? Weather extremes.

Continuity Professionals 52

Continuity Professionals Business Continuity Mitigation Outage 52

IT Governance BC

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Business continuity management. BCM (business continuity management) is a form of risk management that deals with the threat of business activities or processes being interrupted. Any downtime can be unacceptable given the pace of modern life, so it is essential for organisations to plan for disaster.

Disaster Recovery 78

Disaster Recovery BCM Business Continuity Retail 78

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JANUARY 25, 2017

Cash can also be a critical enabler of Business Continuity and Resiliency. Cash as an Risk Mitigation and Business Resiliency Enabler How does cash enable Business Resiliency? Here's why!

Outage 130

Outage Resilience Business Continuity Continuity Planning 130

MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Try a Dose of Risk Management Getting Back in the Air This year, I’m glad to say, I returned to my prepandemic level of business travel. Working remotely as a business continuity management consulting firm worked while it had to, but there’s nothing like visiting organizations in person. as well as throughout the U.S.

BCM 52

BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Outage 52

eBRP

JANUARY 10, 2019

Developing these plans in their own ‘silo’ – without considering the cyber incident impacts on general business operations – can be negligent and potentially dangerous.

Response Plan 52

Response Plan Disaster Recovery Malware Outage 52

Pure Storage

JUNE 23, 2022

You can separate based on business needs, not on performance. Have Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans in Place. Now is the time to leverage data protection broadly, including looking at backup and restore strategies for simple business continuity in Azure or AWS in the public cloud.

Disaster Recovery 122

Disaster Recovery Architecture Business Continuity Pandemic 122

MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

Read on for a list of a dozen business continuity practices that have fallen into disuse or are no longer recommended. Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The past twenty-five years have seen a lot of changes in the world especially as pertains to business.

BCM 87

BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Internet 87

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.

Business Continuity 52

Business Continuity Disaster Preparedness Response Plan Resilience 52

Fusion Risk Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Critical vendors require deeper dives, including a thorough review of their business continuity plan, a record of any historical outages, a more frequent review of their financials, and an in-depth analysis of their SOC2 report. Establish guidelines and alerts for continuous monitoring.

Outsourcing 52

Outsourcing Alert Financial Services Outage 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

Working from home: Is your business continuity problem solved? There seemed to be a moment sometime last year, when many issues associated with business continuity were solved, and the world became more resilient. The go-to issue associated with business continuity was always the building burning down.

Backup 52

Backup Outsourcing Business Continuity Resilience 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

Working from home: Is your business continuity problem solved? There seemed to be a moment sometime last year, when many issues associated with business continuity were solved, and the world became more resilient. The go-to issue associated with business continuity was always the building burning down.

Backup 52

Backup Outsourcing Business Continuity Resilience 52

Erwood Group

APRIL 5, 2022

In addition to preventing severe financial losses, it can prevent companies from “cl osing their doors” To celebrate April’s Financial Literacy Month, I will share examples of what happens when you do not have a plan and outline strategic steps on how to build a resilient organization during the next crisis.

Impact Analysis 52

Impact Analysis Insurance Insurance Disaster Recovery 52

AWS Disaster Recovery

APRIL 5, 2021

As lead solutions architect for the AWS Well-Architected Reliability pillar , I help customers build resilient workloads on AWS. DR is a crucial part of your Business Continuity Plan. This helps them prepare for disaster events, which is one of the biggest challenges they can face. DR objectives. Multi-Region strategy.

Disaster Recovery 101

Disaster Recovery Architecture Failover Backup 101

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In fact, during an incident a smartphone can act as a mini incident room, ensuring emails can be sent, holding copies of the plans and contact numbers and allowing the user to get information from the internet. I imagined individual cells could go down but not a whole system.

Banking 52

Banking Outage Internet Communications 52

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In fact, during an incident a smartphone can act as a mini incident room, ensuring emails can be sent, holding copies of the plans and contact numbers and allowing the user to get information from the internet. I imagined individual cells could go down but not a whole system.

Banking 52

Banking Outage Internet Communications 52