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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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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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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

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What often happens is, when the senior leadership sees how much it would cost to meet the lofty goals of the BC department, they realize that the damage of a longer outage might not be quite as great as they first thought—and that maybe their recovery goals don’t have to be quite so stringent.

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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

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Residual risk is one of the foundational concepts of business continuity management. Identifying and reducing residual risk is the most cost-effective way of making an organization more resilient. An organization that can undergo an outage of five days at no great cost is justified in having a high risk tolerance.

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The Human Factor: BCM Team Roles and Skill Requirements 

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Knowing what roles should be represented on the business continuity management (BCM) team and what kind of people should fill them is an overlooked key to success in making organizations resilient. Business and Disaster Recovery. and how these should be applied to ensure a timely response?

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

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I aim to cover what incidents might look like, how the business continuity process might change, how resilience might develop and how the role of the business continuity manager could change. My Hive internet heating system was down last week due to an outage at a data centre.

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

I aim to cover what incidents might look like, how the business continuity process might change, how resilience might develop and how the role of the business continuity manager could change. My Hive internet heating system was down last week due to an outage at a data centre.