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Rehearsing Plan B: The Importance of Mastering Your Workarounds

MHA Consulting

In terms of bang for the buck, not all business continuity activities are created equal. It’s not hard to spend hundreds of hours a year doing BIAs, gap analyses, and risk assessments and developing recovery strategies and writing recovery plans. Pursued purposefully these are all worthwhile activities.

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7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy 

MHA Consulting

We at MHA are happy to participate in these types of conversations and activities. It is often incorrectly assumed that the vendor handles backup and recovery for SaaS/cloud-based applications, relieving the organization of the need to think about this.) Gaps in IT recovery and business availability/recovery requirements.

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Unlocking the Truth: Navigating 20 Myths About Business Continuity

Erwood Group

Section 1: The Scope of Business Continuity Myth 1: Business Continuity is Only About IT Disaster Recovery or DR. Contrary to popular belief, business continuity extends far beyond IT recovery. These programs include regular reviews, updates, and exercises which are critical for improvement and performance when plans are activated.

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PRA’s Operational Resilience Roadmap: Looking Ahead to the March 2025 Compliance Deadline

Castellan

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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The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order 

MHA Consulting

Very few companies, maybe 10 to 15 percent, actually use their recovery strategies and make sure they can truly achieve recovery of the business units, processes, and associated information technology. Recovery Team. Policies explain how you plan to implement business continuity activities. Business Impact Analysis.