The Failover Plan Podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

He is currently the Global Director of Business Continuity at Brink’s, Incorporated, the worldwide leader in cash management solutions and secure logistics. . In 2020 he was named the Business Continuity Institute’s Continuity and Resilience Consultant of the Americas, becoming the first person to be honored with this award twice.

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Logistics Outsourcing Authorization Business Continuity 130

Fusion Risk Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Building resilience means looking to your North Star to anticipate, prevent, plan for, respond to, and learn from such unprecedented disruptions. As technology evolves, manufacturers need to ensure that their cyber resilience programs are adapting, evolving, and maturing while their investment in cyber resilience follows suit.

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Manufacturing Cyber Resilience Resilience Pandemic 102

MHA Consulting

MARCH 23, 2023

All of these standards are valuable, well-regarded tools that are capable of helping organizations become more resilient. Not Just for Banks FFIEC’s primary focus is on financial institutions, but its principles and standards are applicable to any company that wants to maintain a high state of resiliency, regardless of industry.

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BCM Impact Analysis Business Continuity Banking 74

Castellan

JUNE 21, 2022

And for operational resilience professionals, there seems no end in sight for managing multiple crises or disruptions at once. Regardless of disruption type, essentially resilience management boils down to a few key elements: Planning, preparing, and testing response. It takes logistics. The world is fatigued post-pandemic.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 13, 2023

Optimizing BC for Permanent Hybrid The debate underway between employees and executives regarding how much time employees need to spend in the office has potential ramifications for companies’ resilience. That’s an issue that might be worth a blog post of its own another time.

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Zerto

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This level of data integrity and resilience is crucial for business continuity. a Systems Engineer at Total Quality Logistics, explains these ease of use benefits for his organization: “When you compare the ease of use of Zerto with those of other solutions, Zerto is much easier to use. Nathaniel M., It’s idiot-proof.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

2) Is the vendor resilient? The desire to transfer risk can also factor into the decision to outsource, especially for business functions that can easily be performed by third parties, such as customer service, call centers, payroll services, and logistics. The key questions to ask here are: 1) Is the vendor competent?

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Insurance Insurance Outsourcing Mitigation 87

Zerto

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This level of data integrity and resilience is crucial for business continuity. a Systems Engineer at Total Quality Logistics, explains these ease of use benefits for his organization: “When you compare the ease of use of Zerto with those of other solutions, Zerto is much easier to use. Nathaniel M., It’s idiot-proof.

Disaster Recovery 52

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Read: The All-flash Data Center Is Imminent The Importance of Greenfield and Brownfield to Data Center Investments Understanding when and why greenfield data centers are beneficial over brownfield data centers can help enterprises invest wisely in data center projects that will be able to scale and provide data resilience and ROI.

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Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Billions will have to be spent on making the country's infrastructure more resilient against this sort of event. They are managed by the country's local resilience forums. It must be demilitarised so that civilian authorities take full responsibility for creating resilience and response capability.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 25, 2024

The terms business continuity and business resilience are superficially similar and a world apart. The terms business continuity and business resilience are a distinction with a difference. This was the context in which the concept of business resilience was born. The likely answer is not that much.

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Fusion Risk Management

MARCH 8, 2022

While much of the chaos is out of our control, as risk and resiliency professionals, there are some practical steps that we can take to ensure we are prepared to meet the needs of our customers: Invest in technology that can help your organization understand global geo-political and economic threats that are outside of your control.

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Automotive Transportation Banking Logistics 98

BCP Builder

APRIL 20, 2020

Many professionals in senior roles did not understand, nor even care to understand business continuity and organisational resilience strategies. Some businesses will be more resilient now than they were before it all started. These tests have not been regulated or required (like an annual evacuation drill for example).

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BCP Builder

APRIL 20, 2020

Many professionals in senior roles did not understand, nor even care to understand business continuity and organisational resilience strategies. Some businesses will be more resilient now than they were before it all started. These tests have not been regulated or required (like an annual evacuation drill for example).

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SRM

JUNE 30, 2020

Both are important to an organisation’s overall resilience, but there are several key factors that separate them from each other. One of the most common queries we receive from businesses looking to gain a better understanding of information security is, “What is the difference between a Disaster Recover plan and a Business Continuity plan.”

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Pure Storage

JUNE 27, 2022

Asset management, capacity management, shipping logistics and lifecycle management including non-disruptive capacity upgrades and any required service infrastructure refresh.” . This is because Pure Storage® is committing to a performance and capacity obligation. We’re clear about our obligation in our product guide. 4 [link].

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

I have recently been leading a project for PlanB, where we helped a marketing/logistics firm achieve ISO 22301 (with one minor non-conformity!). Raising awareness to interested parties of your BC arrangements can also help build resilience. This was achieved in a period of five months, and some lessons learned are shared below.

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Plan B Consulting

MAY 15, 2017

I have recently been leading a project for PlanB, where we helped a marketing/logistics firm achieve ISO 22301 (with one minor non-conformity!). Raising awareness to interested parties of your BC arrangements can also help build resilience. This was achieved in a period of five months, and some lessons learned are shared below.

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Business Continuity Logistics BCP Disaster Recovery 52

Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Certain sectors such as supermarkets, internet shopping and logistic companies then had a huge surge in demand. Since staff working from home are resilient in that you are unlikely to have an incident when prevents them all from working, I think there is limited amount of planning for business continuity to do.

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Plan B Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Certain sectors such as supermarkets, internet shopping and logistic companies then had a huge surge in demand. Since staff working from home are resilient in that you are unlikely to have an incident when prevents them all from working, I think there is limited amount of planning for business continuity to do.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

As the transport and operation of field hospitals tends to be expensive and logistically challenging, in some cases it may be more efficient to attempt to restore or augment existing hospitals in the area, even if they are significantly damaged. Myth 38: The main effects of a CBRN attack or pandemic would necessarily be medical.

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On Solve

DECEMBER 21, 2021

As a second example, a logistics and transportation company shared the following scenario: “On a Friday morning, we noticed many of our staff were not showing up to work, causing a major staff shortage. We soon realized that Thursday night, a tornado hit one of the primary communities where our staff live. Dynamic Risks: A Working Definition.

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Fusion Risk Management

APRIL 28, 2022

Maintaining a membership with a global emergency medical assistance services provider means employees will have access to a network of logistics coordinators, physicians, vetted clinics or hospitals, ambulances, and aviation services as well as online guides to medical information. Lessons Learned or After-action Reporting.

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Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 24, 2018

For those who have been exporting to the EU and nowhere else, a ‘no deal’ would mean: Possibly new software to implement to enable exporting to the EU; Registering for an UK Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number; Hiring a customs broker, freight forwarder or logistics provider.

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Airlines Logistics Government Capacity 52

Plan B Consulting

AUGUST 24, 2018

For those who have been exporting to the EU and nowhere else, a ‘no deal’ would mean: Possibly new software to implement to enable exporting to the EU; Registering for an UK Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number; Hiring a customs broker, freight forwarder or logistics provider.

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Airlines Logistics Government Capacity 52

Erwood Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The Future of Business Continuity The Future of Business Continuity: Innovations and Emerging Technologies In an era of rapid technological advancement, the landscape of business continuity is evolving, embracing innovations and emerging technologies to enhance resilience.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 27, 2016

This week Charlie discusses the justification for business continuity and provides some examples of where his work has improved organisational resilience. From this I can see the justification for carrying out business continuity and actually adding value to the organisation and making it more resilient. A few examples: 1.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 27, 2016

This week Charlie discusses the justification for business continuity and provides some examples of where his work has improved organisational resilience. From this I can see the justification for carrying out business continuity and actually adding value to the organisation and making it more resilient. A few examples: 1.

Business Continuity 40

Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Logistics Consulting 40

Security Industry Association

MARCH 19, 2024

By integrating indoor drones into their security strategy, organizations across many sectors can not only address immediate staffing challenges but also lay the groundwork for a more resilient and adaptable security infrastructure.

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Security Logistics Hazard Retail 45

Risk Management Monitor

AUGUST 4, 2022

Extraordinary congestion at critical global ports, decreased availability of key raw materials and component parts, rising freight bills and an increasingly tight job market have all contributed to the need for companies to create an effective logistics risk management program.

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Logistics Transportation Capacity Pandemic 45

Fusion Risk Management

MARCH 1, 2022

The Bank of England, as part of their operational resilience policy statement , continually outlined the need for institutions to ensure that they can continue to deliver their important business services during severe (or extreme) but plausible scenarios. So, what is the current reality related to the conflict in Ukraine?

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Manufacturing Logistics Vulnerability Transportation 52

Castellan

JANUARY 12, 2022

But the challenges aren’t just materials and logistics. But even with these issues, there are still a lot of opportunities to learn from and mature cyber resilience , business continuity , and operational resilience practices.

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Fusion Risk Management

MARCH 18, 2022

As highly impactful events continue to plague the world, risk and resilience professionals are tasked with planning for and responding to these significant events. Remember, it will be increasingly difficult, either logistically or financially, to create new vendor or third-party relationships during a crisis. .

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everbridge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Some threaten extended business operations: Suppliers, partners, and logistics. Forward-looking, resilient companies are now integrating cyber and physical security to facilitate a decisive, orderly, and rapid response to critical events. Organizations need automated tools engineered to increase enterprise resilience.

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everbridge

AUGUST 26, 2021

With extreme weather events like flash floods on the rise, companies are focusing more closely not just on the resiliency of their supply chains but on how agile their responses might be. Any disruption in the sub-tier supplier base and logistics network can lead to disastrous interruptions and should be monitored.

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Castellan

JANUARY 27, 2022

About two-thirds of the book chronicles a fictitious life sciences company named Felder Corporation and its journey to implement a business continuity and operational resilience program that achieves the right level of resilience. Unless absolutely necessary, how do we add resilience considerations in our R&D efforts.

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Pure Storage

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

KPN serves millions of customers across the Netherlands, from hospitals using our IoT telemetry services to monitor their equipment to shipping companies running business-critical logistics systems on our cloud. Most importantly, we’re making their lives easier, and their businesses more resilient and successful.

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