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The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk  

MHA Consulting

Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. 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.

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Data Guardians: The BCM Pro’s Role in Helping Business Units Protect Their Data

BCM METRICS

Business continuity professionals can help their organizations raise their data protection game by acting as educators, advocates, and brokers on this issue between the business departments and IT. Every organization backs up its data, but not all do so in a manner that is validated or rationally tailored to their needs.

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A BC Consultant’s View of the Risks of Generative AI

MHA Consulting

The risks attributed to this technology include everything from ruining education through its ability to write students’ papers to eliminating jobs to enabling a technological takeover that will destroy humanity. How can you as a business continuity professional help protect your organization against these threats? Be vigilant.

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Data Privacy Officer Responsibilities

Solutions Review

PIAs involve systematically evaluating the impact of data processing on individual privacy rights and determining the necessary measures to mitigate risks. They collaborate with legal teams to navigate complex legal frameworks and mitigate potential risks.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

In today’s post we’ll look at the top 10 free or almost free resources business continuity management professionals can utilize to help them raise their BCM skills and effectiveness to ninja level. A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation.

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Embedding BC for a More Resilient Future

Plan B Consulting

As it is BCI Education Month, this week Charlie discusses the need for embedding business continuity to create a more resilient future, using examples of scenarios that are happening right now across the world. The loss of supply was down to a number of fertiliser factories shutting down due to the high price of gas.

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Embedding BC for a More Resilient Future

Plan B Consulting

As it is BCI Education Month, this week Charlie discusses the need for embedding business continuity to create a more resilient future, using examples of scenarios that are happening right now across the world. All September I have been slightly struggling with what to write on, as this is rather a wide subject.