MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation.

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Mitigation BCM Acceptable Risk Risk Management 75

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

There are many public-spirited professional groups and organizations focused on BC. Other BCM professionals. Business continuity professionals tend to be serious, responsible, helpful people who have a professional dedication toward minimizing outages and their impact for everyone.

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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. Doing this work is one of the most productive activities a BC professional can undertake. This cuts across all areas of BC activity. Having these items is not enough.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. Over time, organisms that are capable of adapting to change thrive while those that don’t go extinct. In today’s post, we’ll look at seven ways the practice of BC is evolving and describe how BC practitioners must adapt to stay relevant and productive.

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BCM Business Continuity Outage Internet 92

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 15, 2020

The conclusion was that to be successful and effective, Business Continuity Planning must be an organization-wide activity. So why is it so darn hard to engage an Information Technology (IT) organization (internal or external) in any business continuity planning activities? It’s happening everywhere! Change is required!

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 15, 2020

The conclusion was that to be successful and effective, Business Continuity Planning must be an organization-wide activity. So why is it so darn hard to engage an Information Technology (IT) organization (internal or external) in any business continuity planning activities? . It’s happening everywhere! Change is required!

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BCM Impact Analysis Continuity Planning Disaster Recovery 52

Solutions Review

JUNE 9, 2023

Conducting Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs): Data Privacy Officers are tasked with conducting Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) to identify and assess privacy risks associated with new or existing data processing activities.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Try a Dose of Risk Management As a business continuity professional, I tip my hat to any organization that makes a serious effort to reduce its risks. Cameras are not pointed at all key areas and hence are unable to provide visual confirmation of the activities in the area.

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Castellan

JUNE 2, 2021

new business continuity job postings reached an average of 30-35 per week, with international numbers increasing to 40-45 posts. In 20 years, we’ve never seen that amount of activity! Get the Business Continuity Accountability Guide. After a slight downturn in March 2020, U.S. DOWNLOAD NOW. Stabilization Through the Pandemic.

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KingsBridge BCP

JULY 5, 2021

After the Suez Canal blockage in March (read more here ), I think Business Continuity professionals everywhere had their eyes opened. Although there are four US locks (and one Canadian), only two of the US locks are active. As part of the National Critical Infrastructure, the supply chain risk cannot be overstated.

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BCP Transportation Travel Continuity Professionals 52

Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 31, 2019

Many business continuity planning activities revolve around procedures that do not need to change much, as the time tested approach can be applied to any organization, regardless of their industry or size. Management Disconnect Another struggle business continuity planners face a level of senior leadership and management engagement.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 31, 2019

Many business continuity planning activities revolve around procedures that do not need to change much, as the time tested approach can be applied to any organization, regardless of their industry or size. Engagement from senior leadership is imperative to business continuity planning efforts. Management Disconnect.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

I always say that our role as business continuity professionals is to horizon scan and look out for new risks, but many of us, including the government, didn’t identify and prepare for this new threat. Perhaps it is not the business continuity process which failed but our risk management skills.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 28, 2020

I always say that our role as business continuity professionals is to horizon scan and look out for new risks, but many of us, including the government, didn’t identify and prepare for this new threat. Perhaps it is not the business continuity process which failed but our risk management skills.

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Business Continuity Pandemic Evaluation Activation 40

Fusion Risk Management

JANUARY 31, 2023

It creates a path-like page that separates activities into different tabs and provides a clean interface for the end user. Capture Useful Data Business continuity professionals love data, but it’s important to collect useful data and not just data for the sake of it.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

The first activity involved putting their hand in the water and at the end of the experiment taking it out. They did a series of experiments on peoples’ experience of events and how they recalled them. Their experiment involved participants putting their hands in unpleasantly cold water.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2020

The first activity involved putting their hand in the water and at the end of the experiment taking it out. They did a series of experiments on peoples’ experience of events and how they recalled them. Their experiment involved participants putting their hands in unpleasantly cold water.

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Emergency Planning Banking Publishing Continuity Professionals 52

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As business continuity professionals, when we confront facility damage or the loss of a critical vendor, we need to respond swiftly, evaluating the threat and moving to meet it with purpose and coordination. In this environment, agility is not a nice to have, it’s a must have. It’s a critical BCM performance attribute.

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BCM Business Continuity Consulting Impact Analysis 52

BryghtPath

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Gaining traction for business continuity and crisis management activities with people (who aren’t already on the business continuity bandwagon) has always been challenging. And now we’re stuck in a crisis fatigue hangover of unprecedented proportions.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2023

As a practical activity, enterprise risk management (ERM) centers on eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. When you get right down to it, everything we do in business continuity is about reducing risk. This activity, by the way, is not a one-and-done project but an ongoing process.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It’s enough to make an organization leader or business continuity professional feel unwell. But organizations should make risk management a routine part of their activities, no matter how the headlines are tending. Leaders and business continuity professionals are justified in feeling uneasy about what the future might hold.

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Risk Management Management Mitigation Business Continuity 52

KingsBridge BCP

AUGUST 14, 2022

As Business Continuity professionals, we see a lot of 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. Is my plan enough? One consistent concern across all plans, regardless of their size: is it a flexible BCP? At what point is your plan too rigid?

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MHA Consulting

MAY 25, 2023

A parallel potential exists in other activities that rely on AI, whether it’s analyzing x-rays, performing air traffic control, or scanning for bank fraud. How can you as a business continuity professional help protect your organization against these threats? However, the systems behind them are not infallible.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2023

In one respect, COVID continues to distort people’s approach to risk. Today many business continuity professionals are worrying disproportionately about the possibility of another pandemic, to the exclusion of other threats. Another pandemic could occur.

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Risk Management Mitigation Pandemic Strategic 86

Castellan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

While these processes and older, expensive governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tools have been used in business continuity for decades, if you’ve relied on any of them, you know they’re time-consuming, error-prone, and a real headache. Consider your provider’s business continuity plans. Ask for customer satisfaction information.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 6, 2019

Once the cloud-based IT Disaster Recovery platform of their choice is implemented, few MSPs develop a written Business Continuity or IT Disaster Recovery Plan , which are based on outcomes of the Business Continuity Planning activities. What could go wrong?

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Stratogrid Advisory

JULY 6, 2019

Once the cloud-based IT Disaster Recovery platform of their choice is implemented, few MSPs develop a written Business Continuity or IT Disaster Recovery Plan , which are based on outcomes of the Business Continuity Planning activities. What could go wrong?

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Business Continuity Backup BCM Disaster Recovery 52

Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2019

They require the plan to contain a reminder or checklist of what they should do, details of their roles and responsibilities, and details which they are unlikely to remember on the day, such as the RTOs of each activity, recovery numbers and key telephone numbers.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 2, 2019

They require the plan to contain a reminder or checklist of what they should do, details of their roles and responsibilities, and details which they are unlikely to remember on the day, such as the RTOs of each activity, recovery numbers and key telephone numbers.

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Continuity Planning Business Continuity Consulting Audit 52

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

The Disaster Recover y Institute International ( DRII ) and the Business Continuit y Institute ( BCI ) are the two major governing bodies that are responsible for defining and developing business continuity practices as well as certifying business continuity professionals.

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Business Continuity BCM Impact Analysis BCP 52

Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

The Disaster Recover y Institute International ( DRII ) and the Business Continuit y Institute ( BCI ) are the two major governing bodies that are responsible for defining and developing business continuity practices as well as certifying business continuity professionals. 5 – Business Continuity Strategy.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 6, 2019

With the election approaching, Charlie discusses its relevance to business continuity professionals and how we should deal with incidents in a post-truth world. As the election stumbles to its conclusion next Thursday, I thought I should comment on its relevance to us business continuity professionals in today’s bulletin.

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Management Continuity Professionals Media Business Continuity 52

Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 6, 2019

With the election approaching, Charlie discusses its relevance to business continuity professionals and how we should deal with incidents in a post-truth world. As the election stumbles to its conclusion next Thursday, I thought I should comment on its relevance to us business continuity professionals in today’s bulletin.

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