CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization. So, it’s important your emergency and continuity management program addresses summer hazards.

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All-Hazards Outage Hazard Continuity Planning 52

Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community.

Outage 52

Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 52

MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2024

Herrera Unplugged is an occasional series in which MHA Consulting CEO Michael Herrera shares his candid views on current hot-button business continuity topics. You might think that a company spending a substantial sum for the advice of a business continuity consultant would do everything it could to make the collaboration a success.

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Consulting BCM Business Continuity All-Hazards 52

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. A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation.

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BCM All-Hazards Disaster Recovery Hazard 92

Plan B Consulting

MAY 9, 2022

I am currently in Johannesburg, South Africa, delivering an MSc module to a client from Glasgow University; the module is on “Work-Based Resilience, Continuity and Crisis Management”. The thought of a power cut in a city reminds me of the outage in Auckland in 1998, which made a big impression on the emergency planning community.

Outage 40

Outage Emergency Planning Crisis Management Vulnerability 40

Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If IT Resilience is the cornerstone of business resilience as seen in part three , in today’s digital world, cyber resilience is an extension of it, and one of its other pillars. Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), What Is Cyber Resilience?

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Resilience Cyber Resilience Cybersecurity Malware 97

LAN Infotech

JANUARY 2, 2022

Your Guide to Managed Information Technology (IT) Services. Businesses, small to mid-sized, and of all types, rely heavily on IT services to keep financial and operational processes going. Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs) help your business do this by reducing IT costs, maximizing IT efficiency, and minimizing IT downtime.

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Malware Management Outsourcing Cybersecurity 98

MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. Residual Risk There are two main kinds of risk when it comes to organizational activities and business continuity: inherent risk and residual risk. Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation.

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Mitigation BCM Acceptable Risk Risk Management 75

BCM METRICS

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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

Internet 72

Internet Healthcare Outage Vulnerability 72

Fusion Risk Management

DECEMBER 7, 2023

When he started his current job two decades ago, his specialty was in disaster recovery, but he stated that he’s always thought about risk management in terms of shock absorbers: expect shocks to occur and design your continuity and resilience programs in a way that allows you to absorb small shocks but also manage significant disruptions.

Financial Services 52

Financial Services Resilience Disaster Recovery Automotive 52

MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

The risk maturity model is a key component of business continuity. In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall.

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Resilience Risk Management Mitigation BCM 52

MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

The risk maturity model is a key component of business continuity. In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall.

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Resilience Risk Management Mitigation BCM 52

MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Try a Dose of Risk Management Getting Back in the Air This year, I’m glad to say, I returned to my prepandemic level of business travel. Working remotely as a business continuity management consulting firm worked while it had to, but there’s nothing like visiting organizations in person. A new focus on efficiency.

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BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Outage 52

MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Driving Blind: The Problem with Skipping the Threat and Risk Assessment The Need for Threat Intelligence Traditional business continuity methodology leans heavily on the threat and risk assessment or TRA, in which the organization identifies potential threats and ranks them in terms of likelihood and potential impact.

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All-Hazards Hazard Business Continuity Mitigation 86

MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Try a Dose of Risk Management As a business continuity professional, I tip my hat to any organization that makes a serious effort to reduce its risks. Simply put, successful risk management requires centralized risk mitigation leadership. The proper group for doing this is the Enterprise Risk Management department.

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Mitigation Authorization Risk Management Vulnerability 83

IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans need to keep pace with increasing business demands and growth in physical and compute infrastructures. For a hyperconnected digital business, even a small disruptive event can ripple through the entire organization. Today most businesses have BCDR plans.

Resilience 52

Resilience Failover Outage Backup 52

Fusion Risk Management

APRIL 5, 2023

What is the impact of any given scenario on my business? Where are my vulnerabilities? But, with the invention of a crystal ball not on the horizon, organizations need an alternate way to gain a complete view of their important business services and be better prepared to prevent a potential disruption before it materializes.

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Resilience Strategic Banking Vulnerability 59

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Because technology is vulnerable to disruption—and disruptions are on the rise—every organization should devise manual workarounds for its critical business processes. The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. And if they have lost it, they need to rebuild it.

Outage 52

Outage BCM Internet Healthcare 52

IT Governance BC

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Although share prices showed signs of recovery within a couple of days, more than £1 billion was wiped off the stock market value of the firm, as investors worried that retailers may be less keen to buy into the automated warehouse technology having seen that there is a potential vulnerability.*. Business continuity management.

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Disaster Recovery BCM Business Continuity Retail 78

Online Computers

AUGUST 29, 2023

IT consulting Managed IT services providers (MSPs) can help businesses optimize their IT resources by assessing their current IT infrastructure, identifying any gaps or inefficiencies, and developing a plan to improve efficiency and productivity. Examples of IaaS include Amazon Web Services , Google Cloud Platform , and IBM Cloud.

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Outsourcing Cloud Computing Application Disaster Recovery 52

Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The Future of Business Continuity The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies In an era of rapid technological advancement, the landscape of business continuity is evolving, embracing innovations and emerging technologies to enhance resilience.

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Business Continuity Technology Disaster Recovery Crisis Management 52

Pure Storage

AUGUST 30, 2023

Operational complexity arises when an organization’s IT landscape becomes intricate, interconnected, and difficult to manage. Such outages can cripple operations, erode customer trust, and result in financial losses. Security vulnerabilities: Complex IT environments often have multiple points of entry for cyber threats.

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Resilience Vulnerability Cybersecurity Mitigation 52

Solutions Review

JANUARY 26, 2023

In this feature, Arcserve Director of Product Management Ahsan Siddiqui offers the essential data loss prevention best practices to know right now. Experts predict that over 70% of companies will ultimately experience business disruption due to data loss from SaaS applications. 2023 could be the year we see the first major SaaS outage.

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Outage Backup Disaster Recovery Banking 52

Plan B Consulting

JULY 5, 2021

It provided a timely reminder of the threat to an organisation’s operations whose process controls and SCADA systems manage the plant and equipment. Process control at its simplest is a mechanism that uses control systems to manage a process. These links can be intercepted and are vulnerable to attack. Is ransomware a threat?

Security 52

Security Malware Vulnerability Transportation 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

Working from home: Is your business continuity problem solved? There seemed to be a moment sometime last year, when many issues associated with business continuity were solved, and the world became more resilient. The go-to issue associated with business continuity was always the building burning down.

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Backup Outsourcing Business Continuity Resilience 52

Plan B Consulting

APRIL 13, 2021

Working from home: Is your business continuity problem solved? There seemed to be a moment sometime last year, when many issues associated with business continuity were solved, and the world became more resilient. The go-to issue associated with business continuity was always the building burning down.

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Backup Outsourcing Business Continuity Resilience 52

Zerto

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Risk assessment, business impact analysis (BIA), and service level agreement (SLAs) are indispensable to the development and implementation of business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plans. What’s the Difference Between Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment? What Is Risk Assessment?

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Disaster Recovery Impact Analysis Outage Business Continuity 52

Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

This makes backup the key part of an overall data protection strategy and one of the most business-critical services that IT teams provide. To ensure protection against these threats, mandatory strategies now include offsite or air-gapped copies, which can be a headache to manage, or become obsolete over time.

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Backup Disaster Recovery Application Security 119

MHA Consulting

JUNE 8, 2023

Read on for a list of a dozen business continuity practices that have fallen into disuse or are no longer recommended. Related on MHA Consulting: All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources The past twenty-five years have seen a lot of changes in the world especially as pertains to business.

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BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Internet 87

MHA Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

Healthcare organizations are uniquely vulnerable to hackers and are subject to more than their share of cyberattacks. Two Types of Attacks Looking at the issue of healthcare cybersecurity from the business continuity perspective, there are two types of attacks to consider: data breaches and ransomware attacks.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Hospitality Resilience Insurance 52

Pure Storage

AUGUST 3, 2022

Contact Center Data Management Challenges. Machine learning can certainly increase the efficiency of categorizing the information—particularly for data sets that are otherwise too large to manage. The Vulnerability of Customer Data. Support is AI-driven, so issues can be resolved before they become outages.

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Vulnerability Pandemic Technology Outage 98

Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

Business Continuity Plan vs. Disaster Recovery Plan. Savvy organizational leaders employ corporate strategies such as disaster recovery and business continuity to nimbly navigate through such emergencies and maintain functionality in the face of disasters. What is a Business Continuity Plan?

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BCP Disaster Recovery Impact Analysis Continuity Planning 85

Erwood Group

MARCH 20, 2023

However, even with the best intentions, many organizations make common mistakes that can leave them vulnerable to downtime, data loss, and costly recovery efforts. Learn about the 10 Disaster Recovery Plan Mistakes to Avoid for Your Business. This can be customized to fit the specific needs of your business.

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Disaster Recovery All-Hazards Hazard Cybersecurity 52

AWS Disaster Recovery

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a bonus, you’ll see how to use service control policies (SCPs) to help simulate a Regional outage, so that you can test failover scenarios more realistically. Both dependencies might violate static stability, because we are relying on resources in our DR plan that might be affected by the outage we’re seeing.

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Disaster Recovery Failover Outage Application 79

Security Industry Association

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Axis Communications’ Wayne Dorris Discusses How Mirai, SolarWinds Have Pushed the United States and European Union to Act Wayne Dorris is business development manager, cybersecurity, at Axis Communications. SSDF provides software developers with a set of practices that, when implemented, help reduce vulnerabilities.

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Cybersecurity Manufacturing Authentication Vulnerability 59

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. GROUND SNOW.

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Capacity Backup Vulnerability Pandemic 59

Castellan

JUNE 10, 2021

Whether it’s a result of technology changes related to remote workforces or it’s a lack of focus away from the day-to-day as organizations keep their attention on crisis management, attackers know there are new opportunities to infiltrate organizations and they’re taking full advantage. Get The Business Continuity Business Case Template.

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Resilience Healthcare Cybersecurity Impact Analysis 52