MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. For business continuity newcomers, few topics are as confusing as the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery.

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Disaster Recovery BCM Business Continuity Manufacturing 103

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Knowing what roles should be represented on the business continuity management (BCM) team and what kind of people should fill them is an overlooked key to success in making organizations resilient. The roles that should be represented on a company’s BCM team change over time depending on the maturity of the program.

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BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Crisis Management 91

MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Having quality documentation is an important part of a sound business continuity management program, but it’s not the most important part. Recovering from a cyber incident such as a ransomware attack will require recovery of data and/or data processing equipment and devices.

BCM 101

BCM Business Continuity Outage Business Recovery 101

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The best way to do this is by making sure business continuity is integrated into a robust information security governance framework. A company that has suffered an outage or disruption for any reason, and which is in the process of recovering its systems and operations, is at a heightened level of vulnerability to every type of event.

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Security Outage Vulnerability Cybersecurity 86

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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Outage Airlines Consulting Vulnerability 80

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. In deciding its risk tolerance level, management should analyze the cost to the organization of having its operations offline.

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Mitigation BCM Acceptable Risk Risk Management 75

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In terms of bang for the buck, not all business continuity activities are created equal. Related on MHA Consulting: The Retro Revolution: Why Manual Workarounds Are a BC Must Rehearsing Your Plan B Due to the complexity of BC methodology, many aspects of the field have the potential to become time sinks. This is to be commended.

Entertainment 101

Entertainment Business Continuity Activation BCM 101