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Measuring organizational resilience: tools, techniques, and best practices

everbridge

Critical events can vary widely in type, severity, and scope—from natural disasters to IT outages—and a drawn-out response can lead to significant operational losses, disruption to supply chains, brand damage, and concerns for health and safety. Download eBook What are the most common critical events businesses face?

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Anything and everything is out there regarding how you can protect your organization and its stakeholders from disruptions and recover quickly when outages occur. of Homeland Security website has great general information on preparing for disasters. All you have to do is take the initiative and go get it. Other BCM professionals.

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All About BIAs: A Guide to MHA Consulting’s Best BIA Resources

MHA Consulting

We write a lot about BIAs in our blog and ebooks, and no wonder: the business impact analysis is the cornerstone of a sound business continuity program. It helps them prioritize which of their processes and systems they should protect the most and restore the fastest in order to minimize the impact of an outage on the organization.

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Is your business ready for any disaster? Review this 5-point disaster preparedness checklist

Online Computers

Secure your backups. Conduct drills or simulations; for example, you can simulate a power outage by turning off the lights and having employees work in the dark. Learn more about how to ensure business continuity in our eBook, “7 Rules even the most basic backup & disaster recovery plan must follow.”

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Backup and DR – The Last Line of Ransomware Defense

OffsiteDataSync

And the problem is growing… According to Group-IB , a Singapore-based security firm, ransomware attacks surged by 150% from 2019 to 2020. Typically, backup systems are called into action for discrete outages. Multi-Faceted Threat. Want to learn more about backup and ransomware?

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What Was New in ’22: The BCM Year in Review

MHA Consulting

Unfortunately, a number of companies, especially the biggest ones, persist in taking a “too big to fail” approach to dealing with the possibility they might be hit with serious outages: We don’t have to bother with BCM. Supply-chain security is paramount. We’ve been talking about this for years; we even wrote an ebook about it.

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The Human Factor: BCM Team Roles and Skill Requirements 

MHA Consulting

Facility Safety and Security: This person should already have parts of the disaster plan in place in terms of fire safety, theft prevention, limiting building and room access, and so on. The roles that should be represented on a company’s BCM team change over time depending on the maturity of the program.

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