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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

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

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 

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A partial list would include: the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the rise of the internet and cell phones, the spread of cybercrime, globalization and the lengthening of supply chains, the COVID pandemic, the growing impact of climate change, growing international tensions, the shortening of attention spans, and the rise in cloud computing.

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The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional

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Related on MHA Consulting: Roll with the Changes: A New Generation Requires a New Approach to BCM It is comforting to think that if we master one set of marketable skills, we’ll be able to make a living from them for the rest of our careers; however, recent history shows that option is no longer available (if it ever was).

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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

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The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. With the external internet down across the region, the client was unable to use their bank’s ACH system to make electronic payments. Getting manually logged data into the system when the outage is over.

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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

BCM METRICS

The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside […]. Because technology is vulnerable to disruption—and disruptions are on the rise—every organization should devise manual workarounds for its critical business processes.

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Healthcare Under Attack: Building Resilience in the Face of an Aggressive Cyber Threat

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Meanwhile, the FBI reports that, out of 16 critical infrastructure sectors, the healthcare sector submitted the most complaints about ransomware attacks in 2023 ( FBI Internet Crime Report 2023 , p. Currently, Change Healthcare and other affected organizations are scrambling to come up with manual workarounds for the impacted processes.