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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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BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

MHA Consulting

Business continuity is associated with the recovery of the business processes and all of the requirements needed to keep those processes operational in a timeframe consistent with minimizing the impacts to stakeholders. The standard way of arriving at these targets is by conducting a BIA, or business impact analysis.)

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An Introduction to FFIEC: BCM’s Gold Standard

MHA Consulting

It has greater governance, risk assessment, business impact analysis, planning, testing, and maintenance requirements than any other standard. FFIEC’s requirements are very stringent due to the critical role financial institutions play in the economy.

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The Retro Revolution:  Why Manual Workarounds  Are a BC Must 

MHA Consulting

The scenario was, “A regional internet outage has occurred; you have no internet access to the outside world. It’s relevant for financial services, consumer businesses, manufacturing—everyone. Consult your business impact analysis. Getting manually logged data into the system when the outage is over.

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Are Cyber Attacks the Next Big Threat for Operational Resilience?

Castellan

We already saw back in November 2020 the potential for large-scale failures when AWS had an outage that affected a number of well-known and widely used companies such as Adobe, Glassdoor, and Roku. This is where a business impact analysis (BIA) and risk assessments can help. Get the Business Continuity Accountability Guide.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Regardless of the industry (non-profit organizations, professional services companies, manufacturing, public sector, etc.), The critical point a business needs to understand is that the program implementation and its maturity will require some time and effort across the organization.

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Business Continuity Guide for Smaller Organizations

Stratogrid Advisory

Section 4 - Business Impact Analysis. 4 – Business Impact Analysis. 4 – Business Impact Analysis. 4 – Business Impact Analysis. Regardless of the industry (non-profit organizations, professional services companies, manufacturing, public sector, etc.), ARTICLE SECTIONS.