MHA Consulting

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Let’s go over them. Sometimes the form business continuity management (BCM) is used. Whether the broad or more narrow meaning is intended is usually clear from the context.

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Fusion Risk Management

APRIL 28, 2022

This prediction stems from the strong potential that La Niña ? Regardless of the number of hurricanes predicated for this year, companies and individuals must be proactively prepare for the potential disruption resulting from serious storms. Crisis Programs and Hurricane-specific Response Programs. Preparedness is Key.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 22, 2022

One of the most common ways a ransomware attacker gets access into your system is by buying credentials from an initial access broker on the dark web. They can’t get in, or they get a message from the attacker saying the data has been compromised and requesting that ransom be paid. Is this avoidable?

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Fusion Risk Management

JULY 29, 2021

Then, you must entice engage them to become advocates for the program – not simply go through the motions when tasks need to be completed – by creating a memorable brand that creates understanding and eliminates confusion. End users don’t spend their day thinking about risk assessments, impact analyses, or crisis management plans.

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Zerto

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Operational resilience describes the ability of an organization to prevent, detect, prepare for, respond to, and recover from internal and external disruptions to its operations. It ensures that your business position post-crisis is the same, or even better than before, especially against your competitors. This is no walk in the park.

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Fusion Risk Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

These types of institutions have been called ‘too big to fail’ in the past, so given the scale and complexity of them, how do you ensure that they don’t fail? You can try aligning programmes to best practice, certifying to standards, developing control frameworks, and you should be complying with regulations.

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Fusion Risk Management

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Today’s practitioners recognize that they need dynamic risk management , operational resilience, and business continuity (BC) programs – and they need to be agile in implementing them. In an era of constant change, the risks and threats to global organizations never sleep.

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Fusion Risk Management

MARCH 16, 2022

As the crisis in the Ukraine continues to escalate, our first thoughts always remain with those who are directly impacted. Global business response to the Ukraine crisis. As introduced, many companies have already responded to the crisis by severing or limiting aspects of their business operations in Russia.

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Erwood Group

JANUARY 28, 2024

In times of crisis, a comprehensive business continuity plan ensures that every facet of the organization is resilient. This has become especially true in an age where every tech business advertises its solutions to provide business continuity. Whether a small startup or a multinational corporation, the risks of disruptions are universal.

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everbridge

MAY 30, 2023

Building resilience is vital because organizations that do so are better equipped to withstand unexpected disruptions and recover from them quickly, resulting in a range of benefits, including: Enhanced business continuity : By building organizational resilience, companies can minimize the impact of disruptive events on their operations.

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everbridge

MARCH 21, 2022

To gather insights about how security professionals can help build a more resilient posture for their organizations and the people they protect, we spoke with Everbridge Chief Security Officer (CSO) Tracy Reinhold, Everbridge Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Jeremy Capell, and Group Managing Director of The Anvil Group Matthew Judge.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 13, 2023

In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses what to do in a negotiation situation with hackers, and looks at what we can learn from the situation with Royal Mail and their hackers. This week, with two of my PlanB Consulting colleagues, I assessed the response of the crisis team of a large financial organisation.

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Castellan

JANUARY 24, 2022

It’s no secret that for years it’s been increasingly challenging to find skilled professionals to fill critical positions in business continuity, crisis management, cybersecurity , and operational resilience. What are you doing to meet employee flexibility requests while ensuring your business processes are managed effectively?

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Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

SIA spoke with Valerie Currin, president and managing director at Boon Edam, about her experiences with the company. I was in a sales role at the time of the acquisition, supporting our outside business development team, and a few years later I was promoted to manager of our customer service team. VC : That’s quite a story.

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Castellan

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As we see a growing number of businesses dealing with the impacts of successful cyber breaches, here at Castellan we’re encouraging our clients to move from the traditional approach of planning for what might happen “if” an attack occurs to building a proactive, reactive, and holistic approach to what you’ll do “when” it does. It’s coming.

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

JUNE 6, 2017

The biggest lesson organizations should learn from incidents like the British Air disruption is that they are all , at their root, caused by human error. Here’s why: Humans are the Cog in Risk Management and Due Diligence Risk Management by its very nature is non-deterministic and heuristic. Can you guess what happened?

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FS-ISAC

MARCH 2, 2022

It must allow multiple teams who may have minimal day-to-day contact, such as developers, security operations, communications, legal, compliance, executives, and external partners such as crisis management firms to communicate and collaborate, with the incident response team and each other, to solve the issue.

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Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member IXP Corporation provides emergency communications consulting, technology and managed services for public safety, governments, campuses and private industry. IXP is the market leader for privatized 911 managed services and the “go-to” company for tackling public safety’s toughest challenges.

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On Solve

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As our OnSolve leadership team reflects on 2020 and 2021, we note a trend in our conversations with Business Continuity (BC), Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Physical Security (PS), Travel Risk Management (TRM) and Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) leaders. A risk hitting from a secondary direction or event.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

Lessons learnt from the recent massive shift to remote work mean organisations now need to rethink business continuity from a ‘work from anywhere’ perspective. Indeed, in 2019 20% of businesses had almost half of their workforce working from home – this grew to 41% in 2020. Scott Miller looks at some considerations.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In teaching the Business Continuity Institute’s (BCI) “Good Practice Guidelines” (GPG), one of the points we stress is that in business continuity we do not look at scenarios such as flood, fire, pandemics, but we look at the impact on our organisations’ key assets, categorised by PPRS.

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Plan B Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In teaching the Business Continuity Institute’s (BCI) “Good Practice Guidelines” (GPG), one of the points we stress is that in business continuity we do not look at scenarios such as flood, fire, pandemics, but we look at the impact on our organisations’ key assets, categorised by PPRS.

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LogisManager

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This blog post will dive into the answer to that question, as well as the results you’ll see from an effective business continuity program, the benefits of conducting business continuity planning, how to improve your organization’s business continuity planning process and more. So how often should your BCP be reviewed?

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2018

This week Charlie looks at the ways in which cyber and “normal” incidents are different and why these differences may affect how the incident is managed. The impact of a cyber incident can go way beyond the immediate victim – the organisation. The main differences are as follows: 1.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 19, 2018

This week Charlie looks at the ways in which cyber and “normal” incidents are different and why these differences may affect how the incident is managed. The impact of a cyber incident can go way beyond the immediate victim – the organisation. The main differences are as follows: 1.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The UNDRR reports that this is a drastic increase over the previous twenty years, and “much of the difference can be explained by a rise in climate-related disasters, including extreme weather events: from 3,656 climate-related events (1980-1999) to 6,681 climate-related disasters in the period 2000-2019. million lives, affecting 4.2

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Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Let’s explore the transformative role of innovations and emerging technologies in shaping the future of business continuity, along with crisis management and disaster recovery to enhance organizational resilience. In the future, AI can and will significantly enhance various aspects of business continuity.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 16, 2023

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. In today’s post, we’ll list and link to some of MHA’s best-ever resources on the art of communicating during a crisis. We’ve written a lot about crisis communications over the years.

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Security Industry Association

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

14-16 in New York City, and the Security Industry Association (SIA) and ISC East recently revealed full conference details for the SIA Education@ISC East program , including keynote presentations from top luminaries and over 40 sessions from top industry expert speakers on the most current business trends, technologies and industry developments.

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everbridge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In fact, long before digital transformation was even a concept, physical security had staked out its corporate territory an d was on the job protecting the company’s people, buildings, and other assets. Some threaten physical assets: Buildings and campuses, equipment, and inventory. Digital and Physical Security Go Hand-in-Hand.

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everbridge

AUGUST 11, 2021

More than 2,800 senior executives in organizations of all sizes across 29 industries and 73 countries weighed in on their 2020 crisis response plans in PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC) annual impact survey. PwC Global Crisis Survey Results. Get PwC’s Annual Survey.

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Zerto

AUGUST 18, 2022

Business continuity planning describes the process of documenting a holistic set of protocols and procedures to help businesses maintain a certain minimum level of functionality when a crisis hits. Instructions about how to use the plan end-to-end, from activation to de-activation phases. Disaster Recovery Plan.

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Castellan

AUGUST 31, 2022

One of the big themes throughout the season, Zawada pointed out, was the shifting focus on cyber risk and cybersecurity across industries, and the many challenges organizations face from a supply chain and dynamic risk perspective. It’s better to quarantine first and then figure out if you over-quarantined and back off from there.”.

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Erwood Group

JULY 12, 2022

Maybe you were asked by your manager or a business owner to create a business continuity plan for the business or department. Maybe you were asked by your manager or a business owner to create a business continuity plan for the business or department. Everything You Need to Know About Business Continuity Plans.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Solutions Review’s Tim King compiled this roundup of 45 World Backup Day quotes from 32 experts for 2023, part of our ongoing coverage of the enterprise storage and data protection market. However, backups fail to provide protection from data theft with no chance of recovery.

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Erwood Group

MARCH 20, 2023

Read on to learn how to keep your business safe from disaster! A disaster recovery plan is a set of procedures and protocols put in place to help a business recover from a disaster. Without a disaster recovery plan, a business can suffer significant financial losses and may even go out of business.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Implementation strategies should absolutely include risk management plans for your newly established digital environment. Implementing systemic resilience for streamlined incident response and crisis management. In the last few years, we have seen ransomware go from a cyber-criminal annoyance to a real national security threat.

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