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Navigating Resilience: How to Create a BCM Roadmap 

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The business continuity management roadmap is a simple but powerful tool that can help organizations strengthen their BCM programs and enhance their resilience. In today’s post, we’ll lay out an eight-step process your company can use to create its own, customized BCM roadmap. This is what a BCM roadmap is and does.

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Herrera Unplugged: How to Hamstring Your BC Consultant

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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 

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In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. However, there is one aspect of doing BCM that is much better and easier than it was when I was getting started 25 years ago.

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How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management

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Vulnerability management is the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology. I like doing vulnerability assessments. I think vulnerability management is bigger than that. Identifying and mitigating such situations is what vulnerability management is all about.

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 

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Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The past twenty-five years have seen a lot of changes in the world especially as pertains to business. It’s interesting to look at BCM practices that have fallen into disuse or are no longer regarded as beneficial or sufficient.

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What Was New in ’22: The BCM Year in Review

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Read on to learn about the BCM year in review. Working remotely as a business continuity management consulting firm worked while it had to, but there’s nothing like visiting organizations in person. For many BC offices, dealing with these losses—and the vulnerabilities they create—will be a key agenda item for 2023.

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Get Cyber Smart: How to Make Sure Recovery Plans Align with Information Security Needs  

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Instead, they should be developed in coordination with the cybersecurity department to ensure that recovery measures do not inadvertently create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers. This can reveal vital information about the heightened vulnerabilities that often arise during recovery. Cyber steering committee.