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BCM Basics: The Strategic Side of Crisis Management  

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. Most companies have a pretty good handle on the tactical side of crisis management. However, relatively few are mindful of the strategic side of crisis management.

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Write or Wrong: Five Common BCM Documentation Mistakes 

MHA Consulting

Having quality documentation is an important part of a sound business continuity management program, but it’s not the most important part. 4: Not figuring out and documenting the integration between the recovery plan and the organization’s other plans. The recovery plan does not live in a vacuum. Common Mistake No.

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Cyber Incident Management – Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie discusses why it is important for senior managers to be involved in cyber incident management. It also nicely ties in with my preparation and update of our ‘Managing and Preparing for Cyber Incidents’ course, which takes place on the 4th-5th March 2019, in London. Reputation and stakeholder management 2.

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Cyber Incident Management – Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie discusses why it is important for senior managers to be involved in cyber incident management. It also nicely ties in with my preparation and update of our ‘Managing and Preparing for Cyber Incidents’ course, which takes place on the 4th-5th March 2019, in London. Reputation and stakeholder management.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: Know Your Gaps: Manage Residual Risk to Keep Your Company Safe Inherent Risk vs. 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 what it is, but residual risk can be managed and reduced.

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Judgement day

Oz's Business Continuity Blog

The last few weeks have been quite busy – and, at times, a teeny bit stressful. I’ve prepared and facilitated four crisis management and business recovery exercises (two of which included actors and journalists and mock TV and radio news […].

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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.