Plan B Consulting

JUNE 21, 2020

This week I discuss the role of the Business Continuity Manager in dealing with the recovery phrase of coronavirus. So I thought this week I would share some thoughts on the Business Continuity Manager’s role in the recovery phase and point out a number of threats we should be preparing for, including part time schooling.

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Business Continuity Government Audit Activation 52

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Last-minute Compliance items and Audit remediations. Trying to get everything done in the wake of the team parties, business area parties, enterprise parties… and employee personal lives. ​Your Business Continuity, Risk Management and related programs can get side-tracked during the holiday rush.

Audit 130

Audit Outage Evaluation Business Continuity 130

Reciprocity

MARCH 24, 2022

Such risks could affect your business’ cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and organizational reputation. Emerging businesses that are just starting or organizations with no established vendor risk management activities. Initial vision and ad hoc activity. Conduct vendor audits.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Management Audit Cybersecurity 52

Reciprocity

DECEMBER 21, 2022

ISO 27001 compliance can be confusing because the sheer volume of standards is overwhelming, but the right program can ensure business continuity. If using an ISO audit software tool to achieve ISO certification is on your compliance roadmap, here’s a quick primer to get you up to speed and jumpstart your ISO compliance efforts.

Audit 52

Audit Accreditation Gap Analysis All-Hazards 52

Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Operational Resilience Requirements in Asia-Pacific Examples from Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia Across APAC, regulators have been active over the past several years in crafting and implementing new regulations for operational resilience.

Financial Services 59

Financial Services Resilience Audit Authorization 59

Castellan

OCTOBER 8, 2021

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month , and it’s a great time to take a closer look at the cyber resilience components of your business continuity and resilience plans to ensure your organization is on the right path to not just prevent potential cyber events, but to be prepared to respond to the new inevitable—when an incident happens.

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Cybersecurity Cyber Resilience Resilience Business Continuity 98

Pure Storage

MARCH 25, 2024

Looking across all of these efforts, several themes emerge: Shift from prevention to action: In the past, the standards for cybersecurity have largely emphasized prevention as the key activity to pursue. Audit and reporting: While OR regulatory programs in the U.S.

Financial Services 59

Financial Services Resilience Banking Risk Management 59

LogisManager

JANUARY 4, 2022

With traditional GRC functions like vendor management, information security, compliance, audit and more, risk management activities can easily become unnecessarily duplicative. Step 2: Connect risk activities to strategic goals. The more you understand business impact, the more effective your governance activities will be.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Management Activation Government 52

IT Governance BC

OCTOBER 17, 2019

However, there may still be room to improve your practices, and it might even be the case that your activities aren’t necessary. Understand your GDPR and PECR compliance gaps by contacting IT Governance for a privacy audit. They allow cost-cutting to starve the audit. They use the audit to generate consultancy work.

Audit 64

Audit Accreditation Consulting Government 64

NexusTek

JULY 21, 2021

NexusTek led the nonprofit’s digital transformation journey that combined Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory and Intune for system and device management, and Teams and OneDrive for file storage. As an SSAE 18 SOC II certified company, NexusTek conducts yearly rigorous security audits to ensure customer safety and provide optimal service.

Outsourcing 72

Outsourcing Pandemic Audit Technology 72

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2024

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Business Continuity as a Service (BCaaS) is based on the SaaS concept, but it differs from it in several key respects, as we’ll explore in today’s post. Introducing BCaaS What is BCaas?

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BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Continuity Planning 84

Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A bottom-up approach occurs when teams are issue spotting via speaking up about issues that they are encountering, control testing, or remediating audit findings. Your customer may ask you to meet a specific SLA in the event of a data breach so that they can activate their incident management processes .

Resilience 52

Resilience Insurance Insurance Audit 52

KingsBridge BCP

JUNE 22, 2021

Business Continuity Profile. It’s one thing to have a business continuity plan, but it’s another to make sure your staff know about it. In short, once you have written the plan, you have to raise the business continuity profile to a level where everyone knows about it. Leverage evacuation drills.

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Business Continuity BCP Continuity Planning Audit 94

Solutions Review

JUNE 16, 2023

This is critical for compliance audits and proving disaster resilience. While business continuity is about emergency preparedness, data resiliency is an ongoing, 24/7 activity. The ability to look inside storage and backups by means of an index and catalog also helps understand its usability and lineage.

Resilience 52

Resilience Backup Architecture Cybersecurity 52

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week PlanB Consulting are celebrating passing part 2 of our audit and being certified to ISO 9001. With an ISO, you are regularly audited and it keeps you honest. There will be a flurry of activity prior to the auditor coming in, but at least the work gets done!

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Accreditation Audit Advertising Consulting 52

Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

This week PlanB Consulting are celebrating passing part 2 of our audit and being certified to ISO 9001. With an ISO, you are regularly audited and it keeps you honest. There will be a flurry of activity prior to the auditor coming in, but at least the work gets done!

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Accreditation Audit Advertising Consulting 52

Reciprocity

AUGUST 24, 2022

Ongoing monitoring of vendor compliance activities assures alignment with your legal requirements because non-compliance with these regulations frequently carries steep fines. Business Continuity. Vendor business continuity affects your organization’s business continuity, and ultimately your reputation.

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Management Risk Management Cybersecurity Strategic 52

LogisManager

OCTOBER 12, 2021

However, risk management is an umbrella term that accounts for a number of more granular activities. Let’s examine risk management as the sum of the following parts: Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) : Effectively assessing , mitigating and monitoring activities as you uncover critical risks across your entire enterprise.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Management Insurance Insurance 52

Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Our professional services team provides consulting services to local government agencies, universities and colleges, hospitals and health care systems and private commercial industry clients on business continuity planning, emergency management and public safety technology, governance and operations.

All-Hazards 52

All-Hazards Education Technology Government 52

Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2015

All consultants have a standard way of carrying out elements of the business continuity lifecycle. At this stage I felt it was very important to state that we were not auditing them, but asking them questions to understand what they do. We conducted a tour of the plant which took the remainder of the first day.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Impact Analysis Consulting Audit 52

Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 10, 2015

All consultants have a standard way of carrying out elements of the business continuity lifecycle. At this stage I felt it was very important to state that we were not auditing them, but asking them questions to understand what they do. We conducted a tour of the plant which took the remainder of the first day.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Impact Analysis Consulting Audit 52

KingsBridge BCP

MAY 12, 2023

episodes come out every 2 weeks and they cover a variety of topics all about Business Continuity (of course). KISSBCP Podcast - Season 2 Episodes S2E12 When Things Sour Guest Paul Striedl joins Roswitha Firth to talk about how BCPs need to continue, even during times when they don't get activated. Our 15-25 min.

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BCP Audit Business Continuity Continuity Planning 40

Reciprocity

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Be aware, however, that certification is evaluated and granted by an independent third party that conducts the certification audit. Once the ISO 27001 audit is complete, the auditor gives the organization a Statement of Applicability (SOA) summarizing its position on all security controls. Why Is an ISO 27001 Checklist Essential?

Gap Analysis 52

Gap Analysis Audit Security Asset Management 52

Reciprocity

MARCH 24, 2022

These findings (and many more) show that fraud is a widespread risk that can affect any organization, its business continuity, and its reputation. Internal fraudsters might engage in fraudulent activity for years by taking advantage of their “trusted insider” status. Internal Audits. Strong internal controls.

Audit 52

Audit Banking Activation Authorization 52

KingsBridge BCP

AUGUST 14, 2022

As Business Continuity professionals, we see a lot of plans. We develop plans for our clients, we help mentor clients on how to build their plans themselves, we review existing plans for gaps, and we audit plans. You should be able to use the same BCP to respond to a fire, a train derailment, a power outage, or an active threat.

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BCP Audit Outage Continuity Professionals 89

Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Any data that has been identified as valuable and essential to the organization should also be protected with proactive security measures such as Cyberstorage that can actively defend both primary and backup copies from theft.” Thankfully, modern cloud backup solutions have the benefit of being suitable for businesses of any size.

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Backup Disaster Recovery Application Security 119

Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

As cyber threats continue to grow in sophistication and number, organizations face the daunting and repeated challenge of ensuring compliance with ever changing regulations. GRCaaS forces everyone to manage and track GRC-related activities in one location. It is tough to coordinate tasks across departments.

Risk Management 64

Risk Management Government Management Disaster Recovery 64

everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Technology allows for the optimization and automation of appropriate incident response, including early warning systems, standard operating procedures, escalation policies, best practices, and response team and device activations. As you audit your emergency plans, you are likely to have identified areas for improvement.

Resilience 142

Resilience Risk Reduction Management Command Center 142

LogisManager

MAY 22, 2023

Execute a risk assessment and provide your Audit group with the RMM Auditor's guide to verify the program's effectiveness. By proactively preparing for unexpected risks, organizations can create a blueprint for responding to changes and ensuring business continuity. We all have software vendors.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Evaluation Banking Benchmark 52

LogisManager

MAY 22, 2023

Execute a risk assessment and provide your Audit group with the RMM Auditor's guide to verify the program's effectiveness. By proactively preparing for unexpected risks, organizations can create a blueprint for responding to changes and ensuring business continuity. We all have software vendors.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Evaluation Banking Benchmark 52

Reciprocity

AUGUST 17, 2022

Operational risk refers to the potential for losses that may result from disruptions to day-to-day business operations. These risks can have a financial impact, affect business continuity, damage the organization’s reputation, and weaken its compliance. Examples of Operational Risk. Risk measurement and mitigation.

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Strategic Risk Management Mitigation Evaluation 52

MHA Consulting

JULY 20, 2023

Needless to say, no one should ever delete data that is subject to a legal or auditing hold.) Most of the pushback to deleting data comes from people who believe it might offer an eventual business advantage. Retained data is also information the company could be obliged to turn over in the event of a lawsuit.

Government 72

Government Media Risk Management Vulnerability 72

Reciprocity

OCTOBER 1, 2022

OCEG also notes that although organizations have been governed, and risk and compliance have long been managed in the business environment, many businesses have not approached these activities in a mature way, “nor have these efforts supported each other to enhance the reliability of achieving organizational objectives.”

Government 52

Government Risk Management Internet Audit 52

Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2019

In Part 2 of Charlie’s blogs on Business Continuity Plans, he looks at the different audiences and how we can develop future plans. In last week’s bulletin we looked at what plans are for and the different purposes of business continuity and crisis management plans.

Continuity Planning 52

Continuity Planning Business Continuity Consulting Audit 52

Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2019

In Part 2 of Charlie’s blogs on Business Continuity Plans, he looks at the different audiences and how we can develop future plans. In last week’s bulletin we looked at what plans are for and the different purposes of business continuity and crisis management plans.

Continuity Planning 52

Continuity Planning Business Continuity Consulting Audit 52

Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Following on from his concept of ‘Third Generation Business Continuity’, Charlie provides us with his thoughts on how to reduce your BIA and the advantages of doing so. The central part of this BIA is rolled out across the whole organisation, to identify the different activities it carries out.

Activation 40

Activation Audit Evaluation Consulting 40

Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Following on from his concept of ‘Third Generation Business Continuity’, Charlie provides us with his thoughts on how to reduce your BIA and the advantages of doing so. The central part of this BIA is rolled out across the whole organisation, to identify the different activities it carries out.

Activation 40

Activation Audit Evaluation Consulting 40