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. of Homeland Security website has great general information on preparing for disasters. Preparedness Planning for Business.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 12, 2023

Due to the rise in work-from-home, the last few years have seen a serious degradation in organizations’ emergency planning and response capability. In today’s post, we’ll look at why it’s important to have a solid emergency response plan and explain how to create one. Communicate, train on, and test the plan.

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Castellan

AUGUST 2, 2022

Half of the respondents to the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) 2022 Extreme Weather and Climate Report say their organization has experienced delays or disruptions acquiring key products because of the impact of climate-related events on the supply chain. Get the Business Continuity Accountability Guide. DOWNLOAD NOW.

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CCEM Strategies

MARCH 17, 2023

Public Safety Canada defines CI as the processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the effective functioning of government. What is Critical Infrastructure anyway?

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CCEM Strategies

JUNE 13, 2018

Emergencies can have a significant and even catastrophic (excuse the pun) impact on a business’ bottom line. Being prepared involves developing, regularly updating, and training on both your emergency plan and the business continuity plan. It’s an eventuality no one wants, but, prepare we must.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This includes finding hotels and negotiating the rates, there is the transport from the airport to the hotels to be organised, security guards to be hired, rules to be written, and contingencies to be thought through, such as what if someone falls sick for something other than COVID-19 during quarantine, where do they go to hospital?

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

The event is the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) conference, and is very much geared around government organisations associated with cyber security. Within the actual event, there are also many large vendors for cyber security solutions. The NCSC was heavily pushing incident management, exercising, and developing plans.

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everbridge

APRIL 29, 2022

Crisis emergencies are novel events – like terrorist attacks – that are nearly impossible to be aware of ahead of time, so prior planning is uncommon. The next skill leaders must develop is improvisation , the ability to quickly decide to change plans based on the information distilled through situational awareness.

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Plan B Consulting

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This includes finding hotels and negotiating the rates, there is the transport from the airport to the hotels to be organised, security guards to be hired, rules to be written, and contingencies to be thought through, such as what if someone falls sick for something other than COVID-19 during quarantine, where do they go to hospital?

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this. The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2022

The event is the National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) conference, and is very much geared around government organisations associated with cyber security. Within the actual event, there are also many large vendors for cyber security solutions. The NCSC was heavily pushing incident management, exercising, and developing plans.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

For example, business continuity management has a slightly different set of priorities which induces it to change the emphasis among triggering factors (Elliott et al. Approaches to emergency management teaching at the master’s level. Journal of Emergency Management 11(1): 59-72. Alexander, D.E. Elliott, D., Swartz and B.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Analyzing data, identifying gaps, and using lessons learned to discover areas that can be improved during the next emergency is where the value of technology lies. As you audit your emergency plans, you are likely to have identified areas for improvement. Read the White Paper: ENTERPRISE RESILIENCE DURING SEVERE WEATHER.

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Disaster Safety

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

DEVELOP COVID-TAILORED BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS FOR WINTER WEATHER. Before severe winter weather strikes, prepare by developing a COVID-tailored business continuity plan and an emergency preparedness plan that accounts for the variables of the pandemic.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this. The biggest security threat was someone stealing a laptop and then using it to cause chaos within the system.

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CCEM Strategies

JULY 24, 2018

CI Defined Public Safety Canada defines critical infrastructure as the “processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the effective functioning of government.” CI can be stand-alone, or cross provincial or national borders.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

I have developed crisis management plans, emergency plans and business continuity plans at all levels, for a multitude of different organisations and industries. Charlie looks at Timothy Coombs’ ‘Situational Crisis Communications Theory’ and how you can develop a crisis response strategy from it.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

I have developed crisis management plans, emergency plans and business continuity plans at all levels, for a multitude of different organisations and industries. Charlie looks at Timothy Coombs’ ‘Situational Crisis Communications Theory’ and how you can develop a crisis response strategy from it.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

The statement says “despite systems being certified to UK Government security standards” if possible and a lesson for other organisations I think it would be better to state what those standards are as “government standards” for me is a bit non-descript. Timeliness of this help is provided.

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