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Herrera Unplugged: How to Hamstring Your BC Consultant

MHA Consulting

Herrera Unplugged is an occasional series in which MHA Consulting CEO Michael Herrera shares his candid views on current hot-button business continuity topics. You might think that a company spending a substantial sum for the advice of a business continuity consultant would do everything it could to make the collaboration a success.

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Risk Governance: To Stay Safe,  Write Policies Addressing These Five Areas 

MHA Consulting

Whether the company you work for has five employees or 5,000, it should have a risk governance program. Experience shows that there are five areas where risk governance policies and procedures are especially important: data retention, data access, device security, people security, and social media. Let’s look at them one by one.

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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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Navigating Resilience: How to Create a BCM Roadmap 

MHA Consulting

Related on MHA Consulting: Get Out the Map: Why Your BCM Program Needs a Roadmap The Power of the Map At MHA, we believe strongly in the value of roadmaps. Establish a BCM governance structure, if the organization doesn’t have one. However, there are many consulting firms that can help and other tools that can do the job.

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A Five-Minute Plea for Better Civil Protection

Emergency Planning

Governments have not woken up to the fact that it is now a significantly more intense phenomenon than it was in previous decades. Governments tend to plan for past disasters, not future ones. Involve the population through consultation and the development of organised voluntarism. They will continue to do so.

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How to Counter AI-Driven Cybersecurity Threats to Physical Security Products

Security Industry Association

In this blog from SIA Cybersecurity Advisory Board member Pauline Norstrom – founder and CEO of Anekanta Consulting – learn about mitigating artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity threats to physical security products. Introduction Pauline Norstrom, founder and CEO of Anekanta Consulting, serves on the SIA Cybersecurity Advisory Board.

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Website Defacement – What You Need to Know

Plan B Consulting

This can be caused by governments such as the hacking and destruction of Ukrainian government websites by alleged Russian state hackers, to supporters of Hamas and Palestinian causes immediately after the attack on Israel in October 2023. These messages were then posted on The Best Of Minneapolis and the US Library Program website.