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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

MHA Consulting

Recovering from a cyber incident such as a ransomware attack will require recovery of data and/or data processing equipment and devices. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. Due to the intricacies of this type of recovery, doing it ad hoc is to be avoided.

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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

What often happens is, when the senior leadership sees how much it would cost to meet the lofty goals of the BC department, they realize that the damage of a longer outage might not be quite as great as they first thought—and that maybe their recovery goals don’t have to be quite so stringent.

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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 

MHA Consulting

Traditionally, organizations conducted a Business Impact Analysis every other year or even less frequently, but in today’s fast-moving world, that’s not sufficient. It leaves too much time for systems and applications to change, reducing the relevance of the BIA and the recovery plans based on it. The “What, Me Worry?”

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Tips for Managing Third-Party Risk in Health Care

Reciprocity

The pain is felt by the healthcare organization when a vendor has an outage because of ransomware or another cybersecurity intrusion. Many data breaches occur because of unpatched operating systems, applications, and software code. Medical devices Running Legacy Operating Systems and Outdated codes.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

BIA Engagement Inputs To successfully start a BIA engagement, an engagement team will need to gather essential organizational information such as: Business functions, process or service information – at larger organizations, this is usually completed by the Enterprise Architecture (EA) group. manufacturing facilities).

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

To successfully start a BIA engagement, an engagement team will need to gather essential organizational information such as: Business functions, process or service information – at larger organizations, this is usually completed by the Enterprise Architecture (EA) group. recovery priority of business functions, processes and IT applications.