Castellan

JUNE 2, 2021

business continuity industry saw an average of about 20-25 new job postings each week , with about 30-35 on average internationally. While other industries around the globe struggled to adapt—and many experienced unprecedented job losses—business continuity managed to thrive and grow. Business Continuity Job Trends.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 14, 2017

Whilst Charlie was on holiday last week, he read a recently published book about Adaptive Business Continuity. The poor BIA is getting a hard time at the moment, with a number of practitioners questioning its usefulness and there is some debate among business continuity practitioners about whether it can be dispensed with.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 14, 2017

Whilst Charlie was on holiday last week, he read a recently published book about Adaptive Business Continuity. The poor BIA is getting a hard time at the moment, with a number of practitioners questioning its usefulness and there is some debate among business continuity practitioners about whether it can be dispensed with.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 6, 2019

Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 5 minutes There is something that bothers many Management Consultants in the Business Continuity and Information Technology field. Business Continuity is not a data backup. Let us repeat.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 6, 2019

Business Continuity is NOT a Data Backup. There is something that bothers many Management Consultants in the Business Continuity and Information Technology field. Have you tried to search for the terms “Business Continuity” or “ Business Continuity Planning ” on Google or Bing search engines recently?

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. Then as now, the government published resources to help organizations protect themselves. BCM consultancy websites.

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KingsBridge BCP

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s time to do that Threat Risk Assessment and determine how you will keep your business running when the ground starts shaking. originally published in 2013]. KingsBridgeBCP offers businesses of all sizes BCP Software Solutions and industry know-how based on best practices. About KingsBridge.

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Zerto

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A recent study published by CybSafe and the UK Information Commissioners Office found that 90% of all data breaches were caused by human error or oversight². The term data protection describes both the operational backup of data as well as business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR).

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Once again, we have a business continuity incident dominating the headlines. When business continuity was first conceived in the 1990s, it focused on what we should do if the buildings our organisation worked in became unavailable. Until COVID-19, the loss of a building was the primary concern for business continuity.

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Engaged Foresight

MARCH 21, 2021

Cruz brings two decades of experience to APF in governance, leadership and policy foresight, education, capacity building, risk management, and business continuity. Cruz from Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, Philippines. As head of the Millennium Project Philippines Node, Cruz is a well-recognized figure on the international stage.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 3, 2023

introducing extreme high availability for PostgreSQL—up to 99.999%+ availability via active-active technology, according to the vendor. All to meet the demand for what its editors do best: bring industry experts together to publish the web’s leading insights for enterprise technology practitioners. Read on for more.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2022

For the beginning of the year, I thought I may start off with a fluffy article about what your business continuity New Year’s resolutions should be, however I might do this next week! Amedia AS are the largest publisher of local media in Norway. Who are Amedia AS? The timeline is taken from Amedia’s website.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2022

For the beginning of the year, I thought I may start off with a fluffy article about what your business continuity New Year’s resolutions should be, however I might do this next week! Amedia AS are the largest publisher of local media in Norway. They said that all 70 paper newspapers would be published on this day.

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KingsBridge BCP

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This post was originally published March 2, 2020. If you’re worried about COVID-19 striking your business directly, you need to be prepared for a ‘no people’ scenario and if Supply Chain is your concern then ‘no third-party suppliers’ may be where you need to focus your energy. Revisiting “COVID-19 and your response”.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2022

For the beginning of the year, I thought I may start off with a fluffy article about what your business continuity New Year’s resolutions should be, however I might do this next week! Amedia AS are the largest publisher of local media in Norway. They said that all 70 paper newspapers would be published on this day.

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LogisManager

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Empowering Strategic Decision-Making with Real-Time Risk Dashboards Published: December 12, 2023 In LogicManager’s latest product update release, powerful new in-app visualizations enable real-time data analysis, fostering informed decision-making and proactive risk strategies for strong corporate governance.

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Castellan

JUNE 9, 2022

Most firms seem to be looking at days or weeks for impact tolerance If we look at RTOs in the business continuity discipline, we often think in terms of minutes, hours, or days; especially when we look at IT recovery. However, when we look at impact tolerances, we are seeing timeframes in terms of days, weeks, and beyond.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It combines complete data protection, Sophos cybersecurity protection, immutable storage, tape backup, and scalable onsite or offsite business continuity. They help track and monitor user activity across applications, systems, and networks. Arcserve UDP 9.0 Read on for more.

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LogisManager

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Empowering Strategic Decision-Making with Real-Time Risk Dashboards Published: December 12, 2023 In LogicManager’s latest product update release, powerful new in-app visualizations enable real-time data analysis, fostering informed decision-making and proactive risk strategies for strong corporate governance.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 20, 2023

In setting policies for data retention and management, input should be sought from all concerned departments, including risk, legal, IT, the regulatory folks, and the people on the business side. Once the organization has decided on its data retention policies and procedures, it must publish and enforce them to reap their benefits.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 22, 2024

For example, if an unexpected surge in user activity is overwhelming the existing infrastructure, temporarily scaling up resources or adding more compute power can alleviate the immediate strain. For an excellent deep dive on MTTR, this recently published blog outlines the benefits and challenges perfectly.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 2, 2016

This week Charlie looks at the report into Jimmy Savile’s activities at the BBC and highlights lessons learned. The leading item on the news this week is the publishing of Dame Janet Smith’s report into Jimmy Savile’s activities at the BBC. to see if there are any lessons learned for us as business continuity people.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 2, 2016

This week Charlie looks at the report into Jimmy Savile’s activities at the BBC and highlights lessons learned. The leading item on the news this week is the publishing of Dame Janet Smith’s report into Jimmy Savile’s activities at the BBC. to see if there are any lessons learned for us as business continuity people.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It combines complete data protection, Sophos cybersecurity protection, immutable storage, tape backup, and scalable onsite or offsite business continuity. They help track and monitor user activity across applications, systems, and networks. Arcserve UDP 9.0 Read on for more.

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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. The ISO 27001 family, published by the International Organization for Standardization, includes a set of standards for information security. What is ISO 27001?

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

The psychological heuristic was first developed by Daniel Kahneman, Barbara Fredrickson, Charles Schreiber and Donald Redelmeier in their paper ‘When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End’ published in Psychological Science in 1993. They did a series of experiments on peoples’ experience of events and how they recalled them.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 6, 2022

Survive was an organisation preceding the Business Continuity Institute and ‘Flu Pandemic Guidelines for Businesses’ was a booklet they produced on flu pandemic guidance. I believe that their booklet was published in 2006 as one of the adverts is dated as being produced in 2006, but there is no actual date on the booklet.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 6, 2022

Survive was an organisation preceding the Business Continuity Institute and ‘Flu Pandemic Guidelines for Businesses’ was a booklet they produced on flu pandemic guidance. I believe that their booklet was published in 2006 as one of the adverts is dated as being produced in 2006, but there is no actual date on the booklet.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 6, 2022

Survive was an organisation preceding the Business Continuity Institute and ‘Flu Pandemic Guidelines for Businesses’ was a booklet they produced on flu pandemic guidance. I believe that their booklet was published in 2006 as one of the adverts is dated as being produced in 2006, but there is no actual date on the booklet.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 9, 2021

I was chatting with one of my clients in Renfrewshire and we talked through his crisis management plan, which he had taken from the book ‘prTS 17091, Crisis Management – Guidance for Developing a Strategic Capability’ published in 2017. This book states that crisis management should only be used for unprecedented or extraordinary events.

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BMC

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As businesses continue to adapt their operational models for post-pandemic planning, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives are becoming more important for present and future employees, stakeholders, and customers. They want to know that companies are planning for the future state of the world beyond their business.

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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.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

The psychological heuristic was first developed by Daniel Kahneman, Barbara Fredrickson, Charles Schreiber and Donald Redelmeier in their paper ‘When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End’ published in Psychological Science in 1993. They did a series of experiments on peoples’ experience of events and how they recalled them.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

You could have one person who updates and publishes it. Better still, have an electronic list as part of a notification system or as part of business continuity software, so once a number is changed it is updated in everyone’s plan. Do you need lists of information in your plans?

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

You could have one person who updates and publishes it. Better still, have an electronic list as part of a notification system or as part of business continuity software, so once a number is changed it is updated in everyone’s plan. Do you need lists of information in your plans?

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The SEC has published proposed rules to enhance and standardise disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and cyber security incident reporting by public companies. I haven’t seen anything which covers any penalties for failure to report an applicable cyber incident. Federal Bank Regulators.

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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. A version of this blog was originally published on 18 February 2013. Organisations are liable to see that a requirement has been ticked off and assume that it’s ‘mission accomplished’.

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