Bernstein Crisis Management

MAY 19, 2023

Crisis management refers to an organization’s process- and strategy-based approach for identifying, preparing for, and responding to threats, unanticipated events, or any negative disruptions with the potential to harm people, property, or business processes.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 25, 2020

Today Charlie discusses how Exercise Cygnus, the UK’s pandemic exercise in 2016, holds up against the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Exercise Cygnus was a command post exercise carried out by NHS England in October 2016 in order to estimate the impact of a hypothetical H2N2 influenza pandemic on the United Kingdom.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 13, 2023

Business continuity professionals need to be sure their recovery plans and strategies are fully adapted to the new reality. Business continuity management (BCM) professionals hustled to adapt their recovery strategies and plans to the new workplace model. Hybrid adds complexity.

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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

Fusion Risk Management

OCTOBER 12, 2023

These events – whether civil or political unrest, trade disputes, economic sanctions, pandemics, or natural disasters – can have far-reaching implications on an organization’s employees, business operations, vendors and supply chain, and customers.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The year 2022 saw the tapering off of the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, an ongoing wave of cyberattacks, continuing supply chain woes, and a renewed focus by organizations on identifying and protecting their most essential business processes. Read on to learn about the BCM year in review.

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BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Outage 52

Plan B Consulting

MAY 16, 2023

Supplier bankruptcy, trade disputes, political instability, pandemics, natural disasters and cyber-attacks are all seen to be key factors in supply chain disruption. Added to this the constant environmental issues and suppliers collapses it is clear that supply chain vulnerability has rarely been seen as such a threat.

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Fashion Business Continuity Risk Management Insurance 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. Are you interested in taking college-level classes on business continuity, emergency management, or homeland security?

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BCP Builder

APRIL 20, 2020

What will the new normal look like following the Coronavirus Pandemic? I have included two videos below: A webinar on how to return to business following this pandemic. The current situation has brought about changes to business and work life. My thoughts on what the new normal will look like following Coronavirus.

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BCP Builder

APRIL 20, 2020

What will the new normal look like following the Coronavirus Pandemic? I have included two videos below: A webinar on how to return to business following this pandemic. The current situation has brought about changes to business and work life. A pandemic was expected. There will be little going back to as was.

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Fusion Risk Management

DECEMBER 7, 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic, it meant “return to a normalcy” – but not the one that we were all used to. As he explained, that’s when they realized that they needed to change their risk mindset from disaster recovery to business continuity. And as our panelists later noted, that’s where Fusion proves invaluable.

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Castellan

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In episode six of Castellan’s podcast, “ Business, Interrupted ,” we chatted with David Landsman , Senior Vice President and Head of Global Operations at JLL Technologies , about the changing threat landscape for our supply chains and the role third-parties play in our resilience management goals and successes. Materials and Movement.

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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. Resilience is all about the ability to recover quickly when faced with a challenge. What is Cyber Resilience?

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. Alexander, D.E.

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NexusTek

JULY 28, 2021

This lack of — or even nonexisten ce of — cybersecurity could be fatal for a business. 43% of cyberattacks explicitly target small businesses , and 60% of them go out of business within six months of a successful security breach. Additionally, only 5% of companies perform frequent vulnerability assessments.

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NexusTek

JULY 28, 2021

The three plans, providing managed protection, detection, and response to cyber threats, provide varied levels of security that are tailored for every business. Cybercriminals are capitalizing on such shifting times and vulnerable employees, and consequently, social engineering attacks have risen.

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Stratogrid Advisory

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Readers Note: This article was originally published in December of 2019 and before unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020. Business continuity planners must always be on the lookout for such trends to ensure that their plans stay effective over time. Supply Chain disruptions. Flooding and Extreme Weather.

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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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Castellan

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Both the definition of “business continuity” and the industry as a whole are evolving. While this has well been the case for the last several years, it’s certainly ever-more true in our post-pandemic world. Cyber resilience is part of a much bigger picture and as such is evolving as a critical component of business continuity.

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Security Industry Association

MARCH 6, 2023

Typically, the physical security professional may wear many hats and is responsible for operations, facilities and business continuity, while the cyber security is responsible for the IT functions and reports to the chief information officer. The two groups have different skill sets and reporting structures.

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IBM Business Resiliency

MAY 20, 2021

From suppliers and production flows to transactions and operations, look at the details of each interconnected relationship and segment of your supply chain to learn where your vulnerabilities and bottlenecks lie. COVID-19 highlighted this issue of supply chain vulnerability for leaders.

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Risk Management Resilience Management Benchmark 96

NexusTek

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

which capitalizes on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning, and real-time data to maximize business operations. With the widespread shift to distributed business models due to the COVID-19 pandemic, investments into digital solutions to support remote workforces increased. With IoT connections expected to reach 30.9

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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

BCP Builder

MAY 18, 2020

Is a Cloud Server the best solution to decrease the time to recovery for small and medium businesses? With so many people working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic, many companies will be moving their data onto a cloud server. If you find a good provider then they should be experts on all of this as it is their business.

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BCP Builder

MAY 18, 2020

Is a Cloud Server the best solution to decrease the time to recovery for small and medium businesses? With so many people working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic, many companies will be moving their data onto a cloud server. If you find a good provider then they should be experts on all of this as it is their business.

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LogisManager

MAY 20, 2021

Risks for all business scandals, like the one at Colonial Pipeline, are always known months in advance, making the consequences preventable. Business Continuity. To prevent liabilities when a business continuity event occurs, it’s critical to take a risk-based approach.

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everbridge

JUNE 16, 2022

Preparedness is key because it helps you identify vulnerabilities and coordinate how you might best protect your colleagues, customers, partners, and organization in a crisis. They’ll perform a business impact analysis and decide which recovery strategies will best ensure business continuity.

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Fusion Risk Management

MAY 12, 2022

Pandemics were on national risk registers and scenario exercised with national agencies in the UK and US just a couple of years prior; Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, setting itself up to be able to effectively target a resource rich Ukraine; and in borrowing so much during lockdown, we couldn’t avoid a state of rising inflation this year.

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Failover Resilience Crisis Management Mitigation 52

Plan B Consulting

JULY 14, 2020

Now there is a situation where it could be just your organisation which is having an incident, either through failure to deliver products and services, non-compliance with COVID-19 rules, financial issues, or you have a business continuity incident at the same time. Where are you vulnerable and what else could happen?

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. Myth 35: We are well organised to face a pandemic or CBRN attack. Myth 36: In a biological terrorism attack or pandemic prophylaxis will be effective and efficient. Reality: The problem of disasters is largely a social one.

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Plan B Consulting

JULY 14, 2020

Now there is a situation where it could be just your organisation which is having an incident, either through failure to deliver products and services, non-compliance with COVID-19 rules, financial issues, or you have a business continuity incident at the same time. Where are you vulnerable and what else could happen?

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Government Communications Business Continuity Management 52

IT Governance BC

APRIL 22, 2020

It should come as no surprise to learn that restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic have had a noticeably positive effect on the environment: already, air quality has improved, carbon emissions have dropped significantly and wildlife is thriving where once it was absent. The environmental benefits of staying at home.

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Government Vulnerability Pandemic Communications 57

LogisManager

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This involves tracking your company’s technological resources, making sure their vulnerabilities are under control and creating policies and procedures that are compliant with today’s evolving regulations. Audit Management: Making sure that every business area within your organization is stacking up and improving accordingly.

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BMC

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As businesses continue to adapt their operational models for post-pandemic planning, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives are becoming more important for present and future employees, stakeholders, and customers. Sustainability is defined across three dimensions: social, economic, and environmental.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 27, 2021

What Operational Resilience really means, and how it compares with business continuity. The other event is that Castellan have launched their new single business continuity software package, and so I have been listening to a number of webinars which talk about the software and operational resilience. Scenario planning.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 27, 2021

What Operational Resilience really means, and how it compares with business continuity. The other event is that Castellan have launched their new single business continuity software package, and so I have been listening to a number of webinars which talk about the software and operational resilience.

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Business Continuity Resilience Banking Marketing 52

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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