Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The ability to be compliant and mitigate the impact of disruption through a robust incident management strategy begins with understanding the most critical business functions that comprise your organization. Respond You will also need to have a strategic incident management process in place.

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PagerDuty

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In a world where organizations of all industries increasingly rely on digital innovation and experiences to create differentiation in the market, it has never been more critical to ensure the integrity of their operations are safeguarded against unforeseen outages and incidents.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 7, 2023

It’s never very hard to find examples of companies whose casual approach to resiliency and crisis management has come back to bite them. Alternately, they might acknowledge the possibility of outages but resist investing in BC on the theory that their people are good enough to improvise their way out of trouble if anything does go wrong.

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On Solve

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Staying ahead of it all requires thorough risk management. In addition, about half of respondents indicated they aren’t proactively mitigating risk, yet only 38 percent say their current risk management strategies are effectively measured or optimized today. Pretty ambitious, wouldn’t you say?

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall. Related on MHA Consulting: Who’s the Boss? What Is a Risk Maturity Model?

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 20, 2023

In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that threaten its core services, and integrate business continuity with enterprise risk management, thus boosting resilience overall. Related on MHA Consulting: Who’s the Boss? What Is a Risk Maturity Model?

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Zerto

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Indeed, besides any business’ need to be able to cope with natural disasters or planned outages (maintenance, etc.), Cyber resilience describes an organization’s ability to mitigate, respond to and recover from cyber threats and attacks such as ransomware. Threat and vulnerability management. What Is Cyber Resilience?

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everbridge

JUNE 12, 2023

Climate-related disasters are only increasing, which is in turn increasing the costs associated without proper mitigation steps. For example, in February 2021 a severe winter storm hit Texas , causing widespread power outages and water shortages. billion in damage to physical assets in the US alone.”

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Risk Management Monitor

AUGUST 30, 2021

The storm marks another overactive hurricane season officially underway in the United States, prompting business leaders and property owners to ensure they are adequately prepared from an insurance and risk management perspective. Some key recommendations to consider before and after any hurricane include: Preventative Measures.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 22, 2023

Related on MHA Consulting: How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management The Practice of Vulnerability Management Last week, MHA CEO Michael Herrera wrote a blog about vulnerability management , the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology.

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Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Easier management. Simplicity powered by a unified, AI-driven management system and proactive support that lets your IT pros devote their attention to innovation and growth. This enables a unified experience across on-premises, hosted, and public cloud environments, all managed with the simplicity and ease of cloud services.

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Zerto

JULY 25, 2023

An IT outage of any sort can adversely impact people’s lives. Zerto delivers solutions to help navigate SLED data management needs, particularly in the areas of continuous data protection , ransomware detection , disaster recovery and multi-cloud environments. Seeking help planning or updating your data protection strategy?

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CCEM Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

But remember not to rely only on these sources, as a power outage could occur at any time. Contact us for customized emergency management and business continuity planning Preparing your business for disaster is critical. These are just a few of the planning elements to include in your emergency plan for responding to a tsunami warning.

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MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

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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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

When a hurricane leads to widespread power outages, flooding, and workforce disruption, for example, an effective disaster recovery plan ensures that IT systems remain up and running and that operations can come back online as soon as possible.

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Pure Storage

MAY 7, 2024

When a regional storm makes travel difficult and causes short-term power outages, for example, an effective business continuity plan will have already laid out the potential impact, measures to mitigate associated problems, and a strategy for communicating with employees, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders.

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MHA Consulting

APRIL 27, 2024

Our commitment also explains why I find the tendency I want to discuss today so unfortunate, and why I’d like to make a suggestion aimed at mitigating it. Here’s how: Ensure that senior management knows absolutely nothing about business continuity. In fact, management ignorance about BC is an issue we run into over and over again.

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LogisManager

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Topic: Taking a risk-based approach to Contract Management. Managing these changes can be a full-time job, and it’s more important for businesses to rely on third party vendors to help them achieve their goals than ever before. Given the number of contracts they were in charge of managing at the time, they needed help.

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MHA Consulting

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly recover your business processes in the event of an outage. Step 1: Gain the Support of Senior Management Without management support and engagement, it is difficult for a BC program to provide value and succeed in its goals. Team Member(s).

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everbridge

JUNE 12, 2023

However, there are critical event management solutions specifically developed to help organizations mitigate the impact of critical events and build resilience, such as those offered by Everbridge. Complex IT systems have several failure points, and it only takes one system change to cause a domino effect of failures and outages.

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CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 11, 2024

It can result in power outages, transportation disruptions, and, most critically, could pose serious health risks to people. Understanding local risk profiles helps mitigate, prepare for, and respond to extreme cold emergencies. CCEM’s emergency management team helps communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies.

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MHA Consulting

JUNE 1, 2023

Threat intelligence empowers organizations to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with threats of all types, thus helping them protect their assets, reputation, and business continuity. The reason for monitoring threats is to enable the organization to take educated actions to avoid them or mitigate their impact.

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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. Why are dynamic risks difficult to manage? Dynamic Risk.

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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. They soon find the field contains an abundance of specialist terms such as inherent risk , mitigation controls , and recovery time objective.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable. Both represent critical points of failure. But reality often fails to meet perception.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

RTO is the service level defining how long a recovery may take before unacceptable levels of damage occur from an outage. Meanwhile, RPO is the service level defining the point in time when data loss resulting from an outage becomes unacceptable. Both represent critical points of failure. But reality often fails to meet perception.

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Fusion Risk Management

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Taking the following steps helps appropriately manage and mitigate risks throughout the vendor lifecycle: Dive deeper during due diligence. Identifying them, taking the appropriate steps to mitigate risk , and continuously learning and adapting brings a proactive approach that helps build resilience throughout your organization.

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Online Computers

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One way to do so is to work with a managed IT services provider (MSP). This way, you can avoid unplanned expenses and better manage your budget. However, this often leads to insufficient or improper IT management, which can end up costing you more money down the road. This arrangement can be unpredictably expensive.

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MHA Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Knowing what roles should be represented on the business continuity management (BCM) team and what kind of people should fill them is an overlooked key to success in making organizations resilient. Business Continuity Manager: The individual with direct responsibility for the business continuity program.

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NexusTek

MAY 15, 2023

In fact, over the course of a 3-year period, 96% of businesses can expect to experience at least one IT systems outage 1. Unexpected downtime can be caused by a variety of issues, such as power outages, weather emergencies, cyberattacks, software and equipment failures, pandemics, civil unrest, and human error.

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Online Computers

AUGUST 29, 2023

IT consulting Managed IT services providers (MSPs) can help businesses optimize their IT resources by assessing their current IT infrastructure, identifying any gaps or inefficiencies, and developing a plan to improve efficiency and productivity. Examples of IaaS include Amazon Web Services , Google Cloud Platform , and IBM Cloud.

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IBM Business Resiliency

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

With the world becoming increasingly uncertain and risks proliferating, IT leaders must look beyond crisis management to be able to achieve operational resilience. However, managing backup and storage as well as disaster and cyber recovery for a hybrid environment with hundreds or thousands of applications isn’t easy.

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MHA Consulting

MARCH 30, 2023

Sometimes questions arise about the relationship between the business continuity management (BCM) team and the enterprise risk management (ERM) department. Theirs is a strategic role that involves the research and study of models, financials, and procedures, and risk managers tend to have a lot of authority in an organization.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 30, 2024

A viable NDRP is an essential component of any corporate risk mitigation program because it allows for rapid recovery from incidents that could otherwise lead to crippling business disruptions. By minimizing downtime and ensuring a faster resumption of services, an NDRP helps mitigate financial losses.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 30, 2024

A viable NDRP is an essential component of any corporate risk mitigation program because it allows for rapid recovery from incidents that could otherwise lead to crippling business disruptions. By minimizing downtime and ensuring a faster resumption of services, an NDRP helps mitigate financial losses.

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MHA Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Organizations now have to contend with a heightened risk of drought, flooding, heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes, political unrest, global conflict, cyberattack, power outages, active shooters, supply chain disruptions, pandemic, social-media impacts, and all the rest. The time crunch.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 9, 2023

We need to continue to work with our IT Security and Cyber colleagues and play our part in preparedness by making sure there are cyber incident management plans in place, the plans are exercised, cyber response training is conducted, and our business continuity plans are up to date. Power outages. You can find this here.

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