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Herrera Unplugged: How to Hamstring Your BC Consultant

MHA Consulting

Herrera Unplugged is an occasional series in which MHA Consulting CEO Michael Herrera shares his candid views on current hot-button business continuity topics. You might think that a company spending a substantial sum for the advice of a business continuity consultant would do everything it could to make the collaboration a success.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. All you have to do is take the initiative and go get it. Nowadays, we are in a golden age when it comes to obtaining quality information on doing BC.

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Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: The ABCs of ERM: The Rise of Enterprise Risk Management Introducing Enterprise Risk Management In addition to being a business continuity consultant, I’m a business owner. ERM is all about reducing. ERM is all about reducing. It all comes down to details. ERM also increases a few things.

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Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: Driving Blind: The Problem with Skipping the Threat and Risk Assessment The Need for Threat Intelligence Traditional business continuity methodology leans heavily on the threat and risk assessment or TRA, in which the organization identifies potential threats and ranks them in terms of likelihood and potential impact.

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10 Disaster Recovery Plan Mistakes to Avoid for Your Business

Erwood Group

A disaster can take many forms, such as: A cyber attack A natural disaster like a flood or earthquake A power outage A disaster recovery plan is a critical component of a business continuity plan or BCP meaning it’s essential for ensuring the survival of a business in the event of a crisis. employees, consultants) Loss of property (e.g.

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Takeda Becomes First to Earn Diamond Tier Status for Best in Resilience™ Certification

everbridge

The Technical Account Manager (TAM) provides expert consultation and support to ensure they are maximizing the use of their tools and technologies. Facilities can also report issues easily, like a power outage, using the Everbridge app custom buttons, which launches an incident notification to their Global Security Operations Center (GSOC).

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Drones & Airports

Plan B Consulting

There will be copycats, all airports need to ensure that they are ready. Lessons learned from the British Airways IT outage last year should have meant that in this instance the airport should have been able to provide a place of comfort for stranded overnight passengers, and to avoid leaving passengers sat for hours on planes.