Business Continuity Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram had a six-hour global outage late last year, Facebook shares fell by 5%, costing founder Mark Zuckerberg an estimated $6 billion in personal wealth. Software maker Adobe was the victim of a cyberattack that compromised about 38 million active users. The company had initially declared that 2.9

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Zerto

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With the global surge in cybercrime—particularly ransomware attacks —and occasional outages of cloud services , enterprise risk management is just the latest initiative that needs attention. What would happen to your organization’s day-to-day operations if your Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) stopped working?

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everbridge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Prepare for power outages Ensure you have accurate contact information for employees, customers, and stakeholders to stay connected during power outages. It should include clear guidelines on assessing risks, activating emergency operations centers, and coordinating with relevant authorities.

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Fusion Risk Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Whether it’s supplier challenges, extreme weather, an unplanned outage, or an increased threat of cyberattacks, it seems the next disruption is just around the corner. What happens when a hurricane causes damage to an entire region, causing several sites to go down along with unplanned network outages? Activate Response.

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Business Continuity Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

When Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram had a six-hour global outage late last year, Facebook shares fell by 5%, costing founder Mark Zuckerberg an estimated $6 billion in personal wealth. Software maker Adobe was the victim of a cyberattack that compromised about 38 million active users. The company had initially declared that 2.9

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Doing this work is one of the most productive activities a BC professional can undertake. Sorting out such problems can take hours if not days, an expensive proposition if the issue is prolonging an outage. This can be crippling during an outage. This cuts across all areas of BC activity. Having these items is not enough.

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PagerDuty

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Global Preparedness Month is our World Cup of employee safety where we bring all of our enablement activities home. When facing a critical breach or outage in physical security systems, teams need to understand the where and when in real-time. It’s interactive, cross-functional, fun and endorsed by our Senior Leadership. .

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The activity of crisis management is also included under the umbrella though that tends to be treated separately.) Its criticality points up the need for everyone involved in improving the organization’s resilience to have a clear understanding of these two fundamental terms and activities.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

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. Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 14, 2024

Enterprise Risk Management is the activity of identifying and mitigating the hazards that threaten an organization (definition from Strong Language: The MHA Glossary of Essential Business Continuity Terminology , available for free download with registration). ERM provides a framework for doing this in a systematic, results-oriented fashion.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Manufacturers must be prepared for all types of disruptive events such as severe weather activity, natural and man-made disasters, hazardous materials incidents, supply chain disruptions, and equipment and technology failures. With so much reliance on electricity and computers, one outage can wreak havoc on your processes.

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OffsiteDataSync

MAY 18, 2022

Then, regardless of how much SaaS has benefited your company, it’ll only be talk when the data you thought was backed up isn’t there or when productivity grinds to a halt because an outage is keeping users from the resources they need to get their job done. Outages with major SaaS providers do happen. You Got a Problem?

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

DECEMBER 10, 2019

. ​Here are two high-value low-investment end-of-year activities to keep your Business Continuity programs on track and ready to face the unexpected in 2020! Exercises Winter presents significant potential for business interruptions and outages.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. We at MHA are happy to participate in these types of conversations and activities. BC strategy development is not a “one and done” activity.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the context of business and organizations, “continuity” refers to the ability of a company or other type of organization to quickly restore its essential functions, operations, and services in the face of unexpected disruptions or outages.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 14, 2023

The manufacturing processes they support—like the aluminum casting required to produce powertrain and engine components—are energy-intensive and prone to outages. Two physical tape libraries comprised of hundreds of cartridges used to occupy two entire racks of data center floor space and required hours of storage administration.

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Pure Storage

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Higher availability: Synchronous replication can be implemented between two Pure Cloud Block Store instances to ensure that, in the event of an availability zone outage, the storage remains accessible to SQL Server. . Cost-effective Disaster Recovery . Figure 2: Asynchronous replication of volume snapshots from a source to a target.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So what happens when, during an outage, employees start attempting to use backup devices, such as their home computers, to access the network? Just as with equipment, BC and IT need to work together in advance to make sure all alternate workers whose participation is anticipated by the recovery plan will have system access during an outage.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. Building a relationship with these knowledgeable and dedicated folks ahead of time can make all the difference when and if you experience an outage or disaster.

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Online Computers

JANUARY 8, 2023

This means that instead of constantly worrying about IT problems, you and your employees can focus on core business activities. This helps ensure systems are always running at peak performance even during outages, minimizing downtime and allowing your business to get back online quickly after any disruption or catastrophe.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

IT outages are getting more and more costly. Adversaries attempt to tamper with backup solutions to prevent recovery from ransomware attacks—early detection of this malicious activity is critical. Read on for more. Backup and recovery are integral parts of a holistic cybersecurity strategy. Read on for more.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

While the warmer months of the year signal a time when we can indulge in vacations, beach days, and outdoor activities, the summer and fall are also when hurricanes, thunderstorms, wildfires, and other potential natural disasters make their impressive mark across many areas of the United States, often disrupting the rhythm of our daily lives.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 30, 2023

The BCM team is concerned with identifying the most critically time-sensitive business processes and devising plans and procedures to ensure they are protected against prolonged and damaging outages. Everything BC does is about reducing risk; in this way its priorities dovetail with those of the risk management folks.

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Online Computers

AUGUST 29, 2023

Some cyberthreats can make company data inaccessible by locking it away using encryption. Others can delete or steal sensitive information.

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Disaster Safety

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Activate your business continuity plan. In case of a power outage, use your generator. Designate times for key staff members to call into conference calls for situation overviews. After a winter event. A business sign that says Open on cafe or restaurant hang on door at entrance. Vintage color tone style. Ensure everyone is safe.

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Pure Storage

JULY 19, 2022

Active-active stretched cluster vVol support with VMware and Pure Storage. We’llfocus on NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF), VMFS, and vSphere Virtual Volumes. Cody Hosterman , Director, Pure Storage. Jason Massae , Staff Technical Marketing Architect, VMware. Also, stretched cluster SDDCs offer an availability strategy to customers.

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PagerDuty

JANUARY 22, 2024

When an IT outage strikes, the primary concern is the rapid restoration of services. The correct action, especially in the face of a service outage, would be to opt for a swift rollback of the change that introduced the bug. Or maybe it’s just 2am and not exactly the best time to start coding!

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On Solve

DECEMBER 21, 2021

But nearly a full day after the tornado, power outages and gas leaks were causing new evacuations , and the staff shortage continued into the following week.”. In a given week , the ultimate harm to the business or operation was not the active focus of the risk team or response team the week prior. Active Phase. Communication.

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Pure Storage

JULY 12, 2021

patient records, student records, and information about active law enforcement cases), and they know where to post it to do the most damage. . If hackers take out your organization’s active directory, DNS, or other core services, or lock you out of your infrastructure entirely, you’re at their mercy without available recovery points.

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Online Computers

JANUARY 20, 2022

Its purpose is to ensure that critical functions can be restored quickly in case of unplanned events or emergencies, such as fires, floods, terrorist attacks, power outages, or data breaches. A business continuity plan (BCP) is a document that contains guidelines on how business operations can continue during unexpected disruptions.

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Fusion Risk Management

APRIL 5, 2023

The Impact of Ineffective Resilience Capabilities is Severe Imagine a bank that experiences a catastrophic outage in its IT systems , preventing customers from accessing their accounts for several days. Fully understanding the situation, gathering everything you need, and activating your response can take too long.

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PagerDuty

MARCH 4, 2024

A DORA report is produced annually that delves into these metrics and associated research and, on reading this year’s report, it’s evident to me that PagerDuty can play an active part in helping firms improve their position and digital maturity.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 30, 2024

Prolonged outages can lead to direct revenue loss, contractual penalties, and lost opportunities, all of which can be avoided or minimized with an effective recovery plan. These activities help identify gaps in the plan and provide practice for the team responsible for implementing it in a real disaster.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

But in our current period of an ever-expanding set of global threats, most organizations would benefit from developing a system for actively monitoring potential threats to their operations and assets. The threat of utility or network outages. Threats posed by cyberattacks: ransomware, data theft, and the rest.

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On Solve

APRIL 30, 2019

Every day, events like the following happen with no warning: Hurricanes, tornadoes, and other natural disasters Active shooter Urban wildfire Power outages Cybercrime Disease outbreaks Workplace violence. An emergency notification system is a crucial tool in any business continuity plan.

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