Erwood Group

JULY 7, 2022

What is Business Continuity. So, what is business continuity anyway? So, what is business continuity? Before I give you my answer, let me provide you with the definition from the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) 1600 (Which is their Business Continuity Standard). Business Impact Analysis.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

In today’s post, we’ll look at the measures hospitals and other facilities that care for patients can and should take to improve their resilience in the face of the rising threat. medical infrastructure was subject to what the American Hospital Association called “the most significant and consequential cyberattack on the U.S.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The story broke on Monday when Boris Johnson was stopped by ITV reporter, Joe Pike, and was shown a picture of four year old Jack Williment-Barr “sleeping under coats on a hospital floor in Leeds as he waited for a bed, despite having suspected pneumonia”.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The story broke on Monday when Boris Johnson was stopped by ITV reporter, Joe Pike, and was shown a picture of four year old Jack Williment-Barr “sleeping under coats on a hospital floor in Leeds as he waited for a bed, despite having suspected pneumonia”.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

MHA Consulting, a proven leader in Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning, is thrilled to announce the continuation of its longstanding partnership with a prominent not-for-profit healthcare system operating medical centers, critical access hospitals, and medical clinics in Washington, Oregon, and Alaska.

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KingsBridge BCP

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As professionals (or interested parties) in Business Continuity, you’ve probably followed some of the noteworthy Supply Chain shortages in the news. The article’s focus is on shortages of oxygen in hospitals across six southern states. The Great Supply Chain Disruption is a lot to unpack.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2018

Hospitals had limited generation, so had limited capacity and some drugs were not available due to lack of refrigeration. The post Extreme Business Continuity – Lessons from Hurricane Maria appeared first on PlanB Consulting. The communication system went down, so there were no landlines, mobiles or internet.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 3, 2018

Hospitals had limited generation, so had limited capacity and some drugs were not available due to lack of refrigeration. The post Extreme Business Continuity – Lessons from Hurricane Maria appeared first on PlanB Consulting. The communication system went down, so there were no landlines, mobiles or internet.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

All levels of government should develop business continuity plans to ensure that their essential services can continue to be delivered during crisis conditions. The business continuity plans will function in parallel to emergency response plans. The private sector 5.1

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The Business Continuity Podcast

APRIL 10, 2018

Katherine Corbishley is Business Continuity Supervisor at a large, global corporate law firm. We discuss her experience of dealing with power outages around the world and how prior experience in the hospitality industry has helped her as a continuity professional.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 13, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The BIA Is the Cornerstone As every business continuity (BC) professional knows, the BIA is the cornerstone of a sound BC program. hospitals must have very short RTOs; educational institutions can have longer ones).

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. Right now, the pace of change in the broader society is as fast as I’ve ever seen it, and that looks to continue for the foreseeable future. Over time, organisms that are capable of adapting to change thrive while those that don’t go extinct.

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everbridge

AUGUST 11, 2021

The hospitality, leisure, and automotive industries were hit the hardest. Remote working was the most common change implemented in businesses, while many were forced to carry out headcount reductions. Business Continuity. The post 3 Focus Areas for Improving Business Resilience appeared first on Everbridge.

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Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Once again, we have a business continuity incident dominating the headlines. When business continuity was first conceived in the 1990s, it focused on what we should do if the buildings our organisation worked in became unavailable. Until COVID-19, the loss of a building was the primary concern for business continuity.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2023

A couple of years ago I used the time to get the majority of my book on Business Continuity Exercises written. I was approached by a Business Continuity Manager asking how to get his senior managers to take the oncoming threat of Covid seriously, so his organisation could prepare for it.

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NexusTek

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This illustrates the importance of business continuity and disaster recovery strategies that include offsite backups that attackers cannot access from inside the company’s network. Another key point is that before launching the ransomware attack in full, the threat actors located and destroyed backups.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 12, 2022

When they called the local hospital to say that the ambulance was incoming, they were told that the A&E department was closed, and that they would have to take the patient to Helios University Hospital in Wuppertal, which was 32 kilometres away. Figure 1 shows hospital system services and departments disrupted by cyber attacks.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 19, 2022

PNC to strengthen business continuity, keeping critical banking services running for clients and employees. St Joseph’s Health , minimizing interruptions to hospital operations through robust data protection capabilities. Innovations in 2022.

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The Business Continuity Podcast

JUNE 4, 2018

Inspired by the stories we heard from Katherine Corbishley earlier in the season, we spoke to hospitality veteran Tuba Gursoy to find out what we can learn from someone working at the coal-face, in an industry where dealing with incidents and difficult situations is an everyday occurrence.

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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 17, 2023

How To Mismanage a Crisis Even companies that invest significant resources in business continuity and disaster recovery tend to skimp on crisis management training and drills, an omission that puts a limit on their whole program. Beyond that, they won’t know what to do. Their training establishes the ceiling of their response.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 16, 2023

A couple of years ago I used the time to get the majority of my book on Business Continuity Exercises written. I was approached by a Business Continuity Manager asking how to get his senior managers to take the oncoming threat of Covid seriously, so his organisation could prepare for it.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2022

Learn how to engage your employees and create memorable business continuity exercises. The first person he attacks is a pregnant woman who he kicks to the ground and injures badly enough for her to go to the hospital. I am sitting here waiting for an ambulance to take me to hospital”.

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Disaster Recovery

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Many had to be hospitalized due to exposure to carbon monoxide. More Patients at Hospitals and Medical Centers. Local hospitals saw a more than normal level activity with many admissions. The post Polar Vortex appeared first on Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Blog. Falling Temperatures.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2022

Learn how to engage your employees and create memorable business continuity exercises. The first person he attacks is a pregnant woman who he kicks to the ground and injures badly enough for her to go to the hospital. I am sitting here waiting for an ambulance to take me to hospital”.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2022

Learn how to engage your employees and create memorable business continuity exercises. The first person he attacks is a pregnant woman who he kicks to the ground and injures badly enough for her to go to the hospital. I am sitting here waiting for an ambulance to take me to hospital”.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RPO refers to the amount of data, typically expressed in time, that can be lost before business operations suffer. For example, hospitals use electronic health record (EHR) systems to sustain clinical care operations. The volume of data will change drastically, depending on the services provided by the downed system.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RPO refers to the amount of data, typically expressed in time, that can be lost before business operations suffer. For example, hospitals use electronic health record (EHR) systems to sustain clinical care operations. The volume of data will change drastically, depending on the services provided by the downed system.

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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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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The retro revolution in business continuity is about documenting, practicing, and/or rebuilding the ability to conduct critical business processes manually. Now imagine you’re unable to use them for a period of time. It could be three hours. It could be three days. How well would you get along with them?

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 20: Field hospitals are particularly useful for treating people injured by sudden impact disasters. Reality: Field hospitals are usually set up too late to treat the injured and end up providing general medicine and continuity of care. Myth 47: Business continuity management only applies to the private sector.

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LogisManager

MAY 20, 2021

In recent years, these attacks have affected everyone from banks and hospitals to universities and municipalities; almost 2,400 organizations in the United States were victimized last year alone. Business Continuity. To prevent liabilities when a business continuity event occurs, it’s critical to take a risk-based approach.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2020

The hospitals in Wuhan have struggled with the number of patients and have built a new 1000-person hospital in under 10 days. Amusement parks and many restaurants have been closed down across the country and international flights by British Airways have been halted. Your customer profile in response to a pandemic may change.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 1, 2023

As the school was in a small rural village, south of Khartoum, we were very much integrated into the community, and I have very fond memories of the hospitality given and the warmth of the people. When I was 18, I spent a year there, working as an English Language teacher in a secondary school.

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Fusion Risk Management

APRIL 28, 2022

Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery Plans. Companies should be able to identify their critical business critical business functions and critical assets (typically identified by conducting a business impact assessment). Preparedness is Key. These include: 1. regardless of disruptions ?

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In teaching the Business Continuity Institute’s (BCI) “Good Practice Guidelines” (GPG), one of the points we stress is that in business continuity we do not look at scenarios such as flood, fire, pandemics, but we look at the impact on our organisations’ key assets, categorised by PPRS.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In teaching the Business Continuity Institute’s (BCI) “Good Practice Guidelines” (GPG), one of the points we stress is that in business continuity we do not look at scenarios such as flood, fire, pandemics, but we look at the impact on our organisations’ key assets, categorised by PPRS.

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