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

MHA Consulting

Instead, they should be developed in coordination with the cybersecurity department to ensure that recovery measures do not inadvertently create vulnerabilities that can be exploited by hackers. The best way to do this is by making sure business continuity is integrated into a robust information security governance framework.

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Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Far from relieving organizations of the responsibility of recovering their IT systems, today’s cloud-based and hybrid environments make it more important than ever that companies know how to bring their systems back up in the event of an outage. Moreover, cloud-services providers are themselves susceptible to outages and failed recoveries.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance. An organization that would suffer a large impact as the result of an outage of two hours should be willing to tolerate very little risk. Where risk tolerance is high, controls can be relaxed. Risk avoidance.

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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 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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Tips for Managing Third-Party Risk in Health Care

Reciprocity

The pain is felt by the healthcare organization when a vendor has an outage because of ransomware or another cybersecurity intrusion. In the healthcare industry, attackers often leverage third-party vulnerabilities to access sensitive information, while defenders try to keep these bad actors out.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Section 2 - Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program Implementation. Section 4 - Business Impact Analysis. Section 5 - Business Continuity Strategy. Section 6 - Business Continuity Plan. Section 7 - IT Disaster Recovery Plan. 4 – Business Impact Analysis. 6 – Business Continuity Plan.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

An added benefit to a more resilient organization will be lower insurance rates These are just a few examples.