Monitoring Risk: Maintaining Your Risk Mitigation Strategies
You identified risks, then chose and implemented a mitigation strategy. You’ve decided whether you’ll accept, avoid, transfer, or reduce risk. Unfortunately, you have not completed the job. Monitoring risk, including tracking identified […]
Aligning Your ITIL Process With Your Disaster Recovery Plan
Aligning ITIL processes to your DR plan leads to more efficient and effective use of IT infrastructure. Inadequate planning is a risk to the business, and is often overlooked until it is […]
Business Impact Analysis Example: A Sample Assessment In BCMMETRICS
Our Business Impact Analysis software distills the complex BIA process into a simple set of directives. Here’s how it’s done.
10 Things Parents Should Ask About Their Child’s School Emergency Plan
In our experience consulting with universities, high schools, or elementary schools on Emergency Management preparedness, we have found a number of issues that come up on a regular basis. It does not […]
6 Tips to Help You Vet Your Third-party Vendors
“No man is an island,” as the saying goes, and no company is either. Every organization depends to a greater or lesser degree on materials or services provided by third-party vendors. Here’s […]
Streamlining Your BCM Program in 6 Simple Steps
In today’s high-pressure and limited-resource environment, it’s easy for a BCM practitioner to be overrun with just managing the program and addressing external influences. Audit requests and questionnaires can pull you in […]
Beyond Compliance: Other Good Reasons to Gather Your BC Program Metrics
Anyone who talks to me for 5 minutes knows that I am a big believer in the value of choosing a standard for your program and complying with it. Anyone who talks […]
Preparing for a BIA – It Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated
You’ve convinced management to do a BIA, and now it’s time to jump in. But, wait! A proper business impact analysis requires some preparation. You don’t jump into a body of water […]
How To Calculate & Prove Business Continuity ROI
When the CEO asks about the ROI of your business continuity program, here’s the right answer.
Conducting a Year-End Assessment of Your Business Continuity Maturity
As Q4 approaches, many BCM professionals start to think about their programs in big-picture terms: How are we doing? What shape are we in? What are we doing that’s working or not […]
Ignoring Cyber Security Warnings: Disrupting the Norm
Despite the continual emergence of new malware, hackers, and data breaches, people continue to ignore security warnings. Researchers have suggested this all comes down to our brains. With most successful cybersecurity attacks, […]
What About When Communication Methods are Limited?
Do you have plans in place for use when traditional communication methods are limited? Here’s why you should create and implement backup communications systems. In our blogs over the past several weeks, we […]