Healthcare Under Attack: Building Resilience in the Face of an Aggressive Cyber Threat
Healthcare organizations are uniquely vulnerable to hackers and are subject to more than their share of cyberattacks. In today’s post, we’ll look at the measures hospitals and other facilities that care for […]
MHA and Kroll: Coming Together to Move Ahead
The recently announced partnership between MHA Consulting and Kroll is a tremendous win for both firms and their clients. It’s also an exciting milestone for me personally as someone who, twenty-five years […]
Be a Hard Target: Train Your Employees in Security Awareness
Most organizations today are justifiably obsessed with cybersecurity, but many overlook their greatest IT vulnerability: their employees. The best way to strengthen a company’s defenses is by providing every employee with security […]
Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals
For those with a suitable temperament and skill set, a career in risk management can be rewarding due to the field’s broad scope, consequential nature, and rising prominence. In this week’s post, […]
Managing Enterprise Risk: Understanding the 8 Risk Domains
In enterprise risk management (ERM), risk is commonly divided into eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. In today’s post, we’ll look at what these domains are, reveal which tend to get overlooked, and […]
Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter
Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. Time spent identifying and closing gaps in the organization’s preparedness is an […]
How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability management is the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology. It’s a practical, down-to-earth approach that focuses on small things, but it has the […]
Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times
There was a time when only the military had to concern itself with scanning the horizon for potential dangers. But in our current period of an ever-expanding set of global threats, most […]
A BC Consultant’s View of the Risks of Generative AI
These days everyone is talking about the risks of generative AI technology such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool. In today’s blog, we’ll look at those risks from the point of view of a […]
What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Risk
For most entrepreneurs, worrying about risk takes a back seat to bringing in revenue and building their company’s brand. This is natural. But as their companies grow, business owners can and should […]
Reviewing the Five Types of Risk
The recent announcement of the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic makes this a good time to review the five types of risk. During COVID, business tended to focus on only two […]
Why BCM and ERM Should Be BFFs
Sometimes questions arise about the relationship between the business continuity management (BCM) team and the enterprise risk management (ERM) department. The fact is, both units—as well as the organization—benefit when BCM and […]