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Get Cyber Smart: How to Make Sure Recovery Plans Align with Information Security Needs  

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: Be a Hard Target: Train Your Employees in Security Awareness A Uniquely Vulnerable Time In the context of business continuity, the recovery period is a vulnerable one for any organization. Continuity plans and actions need to be reviewed to make sure they conform with infosec requirements.

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Planning to Fail: 10 Common Mistakes Companies Make with Their BC Plans

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Related on MHA Consulting: Sounds Like a Plan: The Elements of a Modern Recovery Plan Everyone reading this blog will know that the business continuity (BC) recovery plan is something organizations create to help them quickly restore their essential operations in the event of an outage, minimizing the impact on the company.

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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

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Recovering from a cyber incident such as a ransomware attack will require recovery of data and/or data processing equipment and devices. These may be different than the workarounds used in a non-cyber application outage. Due to the intricacies of this type of recovery, doing it ad hoc is to be avoided.

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The Human Factor: BCM Team Roles and Skill Requirements 

MHA Consulting

Business continuity planning is a social activity. Do they understand the key components of crisis management (team, plan, mock disasters, emergency notification system, etc.) Business and Disaster Recovery. Does the person keep the interests of the team and organization at the front of their minds?

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Rehearsing Plan B: The Importance of Mastering Your Workarounds

MHA Consulting

Unprecedented outages occur all the time. Be prepared for pushback by people who say there’s no point in rehearsing a workaround because the primary method for doing that particular task will never go down. You might need to put on your teacher hat to help your colleagues understand why practicing manual workarounds is important.

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 

MHA Consulting

At the same time, a new need has developed: one for a place remote workers can go if they are no longer able to work at home (due to a power outage or whatever it might be). In the age of remote work and the hybrid workplace, the need for such sites has contracted. The “What, Me Worry?” approach to cybersecurity.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Business Continuity Planning Guide for Smaller Organizations Last Updated on June 4, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 26 minutes We all live in an unpredictable world. We recognize that many business continuity planning terms and industry-leading methodologies can be foreign to your organization.