On Solve

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

With the help of Confucius, Dr. Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. A BR/CM/CC/DR plan exercise validates the plan and procedures, tests/trains responders in simulated real conditions and provides feedback to the plan developers and responders.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 10, 2021

This week I look at why building capability is important for implementing your business continuity plan. In this bulletin, I would like to explore some ideas I have about business continuity capabilities. My idea of business continuity capability came from the forces.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations Last Updated on June 4, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 26 minutes We all live in an unpredictable world. We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JUNE 3, 2020

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations. We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization. It can be overwhelming if your organization has never implemented a robust business continuity program.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 17, 2016

This week Charlie looks at the relationship between business continuity and emergency response. I have noted within LinkedIn forums, on Pulse, Continuity magazine and on various blog sites and portals that there is a gathering debate on whether business continuity is fit for purpose.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 17, 2016

This week Charlie looks at the relationship between business continuity and emergency response. I have noted within LinkedIn forums, on Pulse, Continuity magazine and on various blog sites and portals that there is a gathering debate on whether business continuity is fit for purpose.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. Prepare My Business for an Emergency. Then as now, the government published resources to help organizations protect themselves.

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Pure Storage

JUNE 6, 2023

How Banks Benefit from the New Digital Operational Resilience Act by Pure Storage Blog We’ve all seen how ransomware can bring businesses, local governments, and other organizations to their knees. They must have a plan, ready for execution, in a “day after attack” situation. Promptly detect anomalous activities.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 7, 2022

Reporting is a key part of any incident response plan, but paying it forward with early reports may help other organizations, too. Test your emergency response plans. I mentioned above the importance of a well-rounded crisis response plan and team. Focus on business continuity.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. I agree—and in today’s blog I’m going to build on Michael’s post by laying out some of the common vulnerabilities I often see in working with clients of ours. These may or may not be minor.

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National Fire Protection Association

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the plans that can be used is NFPA 1660, Standard for Emergency, Continuity, and Crisis Management: Preparedness, Response and Recovery, which provides guidelines for creating, implementing, assessing, and maintaining effective disaster/emergency management and business continuity programs.

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KingsBridge BCP

AUGUST 14, 2022

Is my plan enough? As Business Continuity professionals, we see a lot of plans. We develop plans for our clients, we help mentor clients on how to build their plans themselves, we review existing plans for gaps, and we audit plans. At what point is your plan too rigid?

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 16, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources From the Frying Pan into the Fire Last week MHA Consulting CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog where he listed, linked to, and described some of the best blog posts and other resources we’ve produced on BIAs. Free download with registration.

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NexusTek

JULY 7, 2021

Cyber resilience involves the understanding that a security threat will eventually penetrate network systems and a robust business will have proactively prepared processes and methods to minimize damage and ensure business continuity. Building cyber resilience ensures your business rolls with the waves.

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SRM

APRIL 2, 2019

We can have meticulous Incident Response plans in place but if we can’t communicate effectively with the press we leave the interpretation of facts in the hands of journalists and editors whose motivation is not to reassure but to create attention-grabbing headlines. Or visit our website. Follow us on Linkedin.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). We have, for a long time had scenario-specific plans at the operational level.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 13, 2022

Read on to learn more about his questions and thoughts regarding the changing world of business continuity. I am an FBCI, who has contributed to several versions of the Good Practice Guidelines, and I have written a book on business continuity, so I should know my stuff! What is the RTO of power production?

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NexusTek

JULY 28, 2021

You don’t have an incident response plan. Incident response preparedness can save up to $2 million on data breaches, according to IBM, and yet 39% of small and medium-sized businesses do not have an incident response plan. View Standard Cybersecurity Plan. Preventing Cybersecurity Failure.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Being short doesn’t necessarily mean bad, well at least in business continuity exercises. To organise a complex tabletop, live, or SIMEX (simulation)* exercise usually takes months of planning and preparation. The outputs of many of the exercises in my book can be used to develop response plans for different scenarios.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 5, 2022

This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘ Good Practice Guidelines ’ (GPG). We have, for a long time had scenario-specific plans at the operational level.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 13, 2022

Read on to learn more about his questions and thoughts regarding the changing world of business continuity. I am an FBCI, who has contributed to several versions of the Good Practice Guidelines, and I have written a book on business continuity, so I should know my stuff! What is the RTO of power production?

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 15, 2021

This week I talk about writing incident scenarios and how different business continuity plans have come back in style. This is the same in the business continuity industry, with the return of risk scenarios which has gone full circle over the last 20 years. How we wrote business continuity plans 20 years ago.

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Fusion Risk Management

MARCH 8, 2022

In addition to the pain felt by the Kremlin, the economic sanctions are having consequences and impact to broader global economies and may also have an impact on your business. This blog will cover some of the impacts and how organizations can prepare to better respond to them.

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Erwood Group

MARCH 20, 2023

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.

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Pure Storage

JULY 18, 2023

Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery by Pure Storage Blog Data infrastructures aren’t just built for storage, performance, and scale—they’re designed for resilience. This means having the right technology and response plans in place to minimize data loss and downtime from any type of event—cyberattack, natural disaster, or otherwise.

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Castellan

JANUARY 10, 2022

The conversation was a result of a new report we worked on together which takes a closer look at WCD members’ thoughts about business continuity and operational resilience. This helps you develop response plans for all risks your organization can’t mitigate or control. This is where having a strong ERM is important.

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Pure Storage

MARCH 21, 2022

Before a breach, it’s critical to already have an emergency response plan, including a team of key players and the tools they need to get you back online fast. . Creating an emergency response team (ERT) is a critical step I recommend organizations take before an event. Information Technology (IT). Investor Relations.

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Plan B Consulting

JUNE 20, 2022

Also, why business continuity professionals need to implement this crucial fact into our plans. As business continuity professionals, we must accept that if we warn others that something outrageous is going to happen, it is very likely that people may not believe us.

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Castellan

AUGUST 24, 2021

For businesses, resilience is often tied directly to business continuity, where professionals are tasked with ensuring an organization can quickly adjust, adapt, respond, and recover from disruptions and disasters. Because it’s how your organization can anticipate, plan for, mitigate, respond to, and recover from cyber events.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This week Charlie discusses Storm Arwen, the cycle of lessons following an incident and why business continuity professionals need to keep an eye on incidents at all times. I think our role as business continuity professionals is to keep our eye on contemporary incidents and take the time to seek out the lessons.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Often the scenario plans, which I like to call contingency plans, are generic, contain little detail and do not align to the risk the organisation faces. It also has to be noted that a plan for dealing with the loss of a building is very different to a cyber response plan and dealing with a reputational issue.

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NexusTek

AUGUST 18, 2021

Establish a business continuity plan. Safeguard your company in the event of a crisis with a set of policies, procedures, and automated processes to guarantee business operations will continue without downtime. Create and test an incident response plan. Take your security seriously with NexusTek.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 28, 2017

In this blog post, I am going to describe what is a playbook and then give examples of two different types. I am going to share with you my ideas for a decision and a response playbook. In looking playbooks, we need to first look at the contents of a cyber response plan. What is a playbook and do you need one?

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 28, 2017

In this blog post, I am going to describe what is a playbook and then give examples of two different types. I am going to share with you my ideas for a decision and a response playbook. In looking playbooks, we need to first look at the contents of a cyber response plan. Incident Management Plan. Response Playbook.

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SRM

JUNE 21, 2019

In addition, a full test and exercise strategy includes a thorough examination of your Business Continuity and Incident Response plans and can include policy reviews and a report full of suggested remedial actions. Or see our blog: What’s up with What’s App. Or visit our website. Follow us on Linkedin.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

The old adage is that people are our greatest asset, and if this is true then we should ensure that within our cyber response plans and playbooks there are procedures for looking after people. Similar to what we would find in hazard and natural disaster response plans.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

SEPA’s business continuity plans were all unavailable because they were stored on IT that was affected by the hack. I think we need to go back to old-school printing plans off and have a copy at home, work and even in the car.

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