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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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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

Inherent risk is the danger intrinsic to any business activity or operation. Residual risk is the amount of risk that remains in an activity after mitigation controls are applied. Putting it in mathematical terms: (Inherent risk) – (the risk eliminated by your mitigation controls) = residual risk. Risk avoidance.

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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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Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated 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). Nowadays BC is usually a unit unto itself, and in progressive organizations, it tends to be part of the Risk department (since BC is all about risk mitigation).

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Correctly determining the risks facing any organization’s operations is essential for creating relevant business continuity plans, IT disaster recovery plans, emergency response and any other incident or crisis-related plans. The internal recovery plans of vendors and service providers must be taken into consideration.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Correctly determining the risks facing any organization’s operations is essential for creating relevant business continuity plans, IT disaster recovery plans, emergency response and any other incident or crisis-related plans. The internal recovery plans of vendors and service providers must be taken into consideration.