Plan B Consulting

JUNE 7, 2017

I have been scouring the internet for any information on why the outage happened, but the only information released so far is that it was due to a power surge. The East Coast Amazon data centre outage a couple of months ago should have taught us that however many backup systems an organisation has, their IT can still fail.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 7, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources We business continuity professionals spend a lot of time telling our colleagues and clients about the negative impacts an organization can experience if it gives short shrift to the need to become resilient and plan for outages.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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MHA Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Mark My Words: Commonly Confused Business Continuity Terms The Meaning of “Continuity” If you’ve been to MHA’s home page , you know what our firm is all about. As the headline on the page explains, we provide “Business continuity consulting for today’s leading companies.”

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. Building a relationship with these knowledgeable and dedicated folks ahead of time can make all the difference when and if you experience an outage or disaster.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. Related on MHA Consulting: BCM Basics: Modern IT/DR Strategies The Benefits of a Sound Business Continuity Strategy A solid BC strategy is a fundamental component of a functional BC program.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: The Retro Revolution: Why Manual Workarounds Are a BC Must Rehearsing Your Plan B Due to the complexity of BC methodology, many aspects of the field have the potential to become time sinks. Unprecedented outages occur all the time. This is to be commended.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management The Practice of Vulnerability Management Last week, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog about vulnerability management , the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In today’s post we’ll look at why organizations still need to be adept at IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) and describe the four phases of restoring IT services after an outage. Phase 1: Preparation Technically, preparation is not a phase of disaster recovery since it happens before the outage. Estimate how long the outage will last.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. However, we’re finding that with ransomware, network outages, and all the rest of our contemporary challenges, the need to have documented, tested manual workaround procedures is greater than ever. I wish them the best.

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MHA Consulting

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: The Write Stuff: How to Create and Maintain Business Continuity Documentation Five Ways BC Documentation Can Go Wrong An organization can reap myriad benefits by documenting its business continuity or IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) program in the form of written recovery plans.

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MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So what happens when, during an outage, employees start attempting to use backup devices, such as their home computers, to access the network? Just as with equipment, BC and IT need to work together in advance to make sure all alternate workers whose participation is anticipated by the recovery plan will have system access during an outage.

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Online Computers

MARCH 30, 2022

Network outages. In a network outage, the server can't communicate with other computers, causing work to grind to a halt. The difficult thing about network outages is that they can be caused by anything from router failures to cable cuts to internet service provider problems. Third-party or cloud vendor outages.

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MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Mark My Words: Commonly Confused Business Continuity Terms Two Fundamental Terms One of the most common BC-related internet searches is by people trying to learn the difference between business continuity and IT disaster recovery. The larger point is, this is the zone where BC and IT/DR meet.

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On Solve

JANUARY 14, 2022

Failing To Plan Is Planning To Fail, Forrester Consulting, October 2021 2. Failing To Plan Is Planning To Fail, Forrester Consulting, October 2021 3. Failing To Plan Is Planning To Fail, Forrester Consulting, October 2021 4. The average cost of an unplanned data center outage is $9,000 per minute, according to a Ponemon Study.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Take, for example, an IT outage due to a cyberattack. Furthermore, a plan needs to be available to guide employees through a Plan B if an outage occurs. One of Everbridge’s customers, Arup , is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, consultants, and technical specialists who offer a broad range of services.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 30, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: The ABCs of ERM: The Rise of Enterprise Risk Management Enterprise Risk and Business Continuity From time to time, clients of ours express confusion about the roles and relationship of the enterprise risk management department and the business continuity team.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 14, 2024

Related on MHA Consulting: The ABCs of ERM: The Rise of Enterprise Risk Management Introducing Enterprise Risk Management In addition to being a business continuity consultant, I’m a business owner. It helps organizations reduce risk, outages, impacts, and costs, such as insurance costs. ERM is all about reducing.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 2, 2023

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. The post The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Driving Blind: The Problem with Skipping the Threat and Risk Assessment The Need for Threat Intelligence Traditional business continuity methodology leans heavily on the threat and risk assessment or TRA, in which the organization identifies potential threats and ranks them in terms of likelihood and potential impact.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Roll with the Changes: A New Generation Requires a New Approach to BCM It is comforting to think that if we master one set of marketable skills, we’ll be able to make a living from them for the rest of our careers; however, recent history shows that option is no longer available (if it ever was).

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 23, 2023

However, companies that need to be able to demonstrate a high level of recovery capability and competency—and where outages of even a couple of hours have the potential to cause serious impacts to the organization’s revenue, reputation, and stakeholders—would likely benefit greatly from learning about FFIEC and trying to meet its requirements.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 9, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja Why the BIA Is Important The business impact analysis or BIA is one of the topics Richard Long and I write about the most here on “Roadmap to Resiliency.” In today’s post, we list, link to, and describe MHA’s best BIA resources. Free Ebook Your BIA Action Guide.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Here are some examples of vulnerabilities that can exist at facilities even after risk mitigation controls have been implemented: The backup power source can provide only a fraction of the power needed to keep critical operations running in the event of an outage.

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NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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Online Computers

AUGUST 29, 2023

IT consulting Managed IT services providers (MSPs) can help businesses optimize their IT resources by assessing their current IT infrastructure, identifying any gaps or inefficiencies, and developing a plan to improve efficiency and productivity. Examples of IaaS include Amazon Web Services , Google Cloud Platform , and IBM Cloud.

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Assurance IT

JUNE 15, 2021

Protection Against Failed Hard Drives Protection Against Power Outages Recovery if Operating System Fails. You can book a free consultation call here to learn more about what’s best for your enterprise. While losing your data can be prevented, it can have serious consequences in your enterprise. What’s The Difference?

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Backup Disaster Recovery Outage Business Continuity 91

MHA Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Working remotely as a business continuity management consulting firm worked while it had to, but there’s nothing like visiting organizations in person. People working at home can lose power, suffer network outages, expose confidential data to unauthorized people, get hacked, come under physical threat, and many other challenges.

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BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Outage 52

MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Further Reading Who Does What: The Most Critical Job Roles in IT Disaster Recovery Our Complex World Demands a “Team of Teams” 8 Tips for Building a Good Crisis Management Team A Little Help: How to Select a BCM Consultant Who’s the Boss?

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BCM Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Crisis Management 91

MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Who’s the Boss? Over time, we see risks go down, the number of outages decrease, and insurance and other costs decrease. Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership The post How a Risk Maturity Model Can Increase Your Company’s Resilience appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: Who’s the Boss? Over time, we see risks go down, the number of outages decrease, and insurance and other costs decrease. Successful Risk Mitigation Requires Centralized Leadership The post How a Risk Maturity Model Can Increase Your Company’s Resilience appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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everbridge

JUNE 12, 2023

In fact, a 2023 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting found that a composite organization based on interviewed customers using Everbridge CEM experienced a 358% return on investment over a 3-year period. Take for example building resilient digital systems.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Approaching maintenance in this way allows your organization to be prepared for planned outages within your infrastructure, including patch installation, security updates, and service packs. In the event of a natural disaster, equipment failure, or a power outage, and backup files kept on-site will become inaccessible.

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Data Recovery Disaster Recovery Backup Outage 98

Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

Power outages. I suspect all of us in the business continuity profession would like a pay rise, but we may find ourselves developing plans for mitigating the impact of strikes by our suppliers on our own organisation, or even strikes by our own employees.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

Power outages. The post Thoughts On The Coming New Year appeared first on PlanB Consulting. I suspect all of us in the business continuity profession would like a pay rise, but we may find ourselves developing plans for mitigating the impact of strikes by our suppliers on our own organisation, or even strikes by our own employees.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Technical Account Manager (TAM) provides expert consultation and support to ensure they are maximizing the use of their tools and technologies. Facilities can also report issues easily, like a power outage, using the Everbridge app custom buttons, which launches an incident notification to their Global Security Operations Center (GSOC).

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LAN Infotech

JANUARY 2, 2022

Natural disasters, human errors, power outages, or cyberattacks can be detrimental to businesses. Consulting Services. MSPs can offer consulting services that will point out how certain technologies or the lack of technologies can have an impact on service for your customers. Business Continuity Solutions.

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