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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. For business continuity newcomers, few topics are as confusing as the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery. Let’s go over them.

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Artificial Intelligence, Business Continuity, and the Scottish Continuity Group

Plan B Consulting

and the Future Landscape of Business Continuity’, where I discussed methodology changes outlined in the GPG 7.0 , focusing on resilience, cyber threats, AI, and the future of business continuity as a profession. I delivered a presentation titled ‘Innovations and Trends: A Close Look at the BCI’s GPG 7.0

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

MHA Consulting

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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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

MHA Consulting

The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. Continue operating your critical business operations.” With the external internet down across the region, the client was unable to use their bank’s ACH system to make electronic payments.

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IT Disaster Recovery Planning – No worries, we have a backup!

Stratogrid Advisory

This type of response will set off a few red flags with the Business Continuity Planners, but many organizations do not understand why it is so problematic. For example, there may be a way to manually process payments if the need arises, but there is no way to respond to customer e-mails without access to the Internet.

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IT Disaster Recovery Planning – No worries, we have a backup!

Stratogrid Advisory

This type of response will set off a few red flags with the Business Continuity Planners, but many organizations do not understand why it is so problematic. ITDR Planning depends on Business Impact Analysis (BIA) and Risk Assessments. Business Continuity Management. Business Continuity Planning.

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Five Cybersecurity Sessions You Can’t Miss at ISC West

Security Industry Association

Yet for physical security devices (and the Internet of Things in general) many barriers exist in implementing Zero Trust, such as the use of 802.1x A business impact analysis assesses the enterprise’s ability to recover from a disaster and should form the basis for a contingency or business continuity plan.