Overreacting: Don’t Learn the Wrong Lessons During a Disaster
A natural disaster can jumpstart your business continuity plans, but it can also do it more harm than good. Is your disaster response hurting you? Disasters like the one in Puerto Rico […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Signs of an Unreliable IT Architecture
A solid IT architecture keeps your business running efficiently, but what if you don’t have one? These are key indicators for when a rebuild is in order. Many come into the planning […]
Small Business Guide to Hurricane and Natural Disaster Relief
With the two recent hurricanes that have devastated the Gulf states area, especially Texas and Florida, at MHA we add our thoughts and prayers to those who are displaced and experiencing loss […]
7 Steps to Establishing a Sound Business Continuity Strategy
Many organizations struggle with establishing a sound business continuity strategy, a foundational aspect of a strong BC program. Follow these seven steps to implement a BC strategy that can help you swiftly […]
The Difference Between Business Continuity and Insurance – Business Continuity 101
In last week’s blog, we discussed why you should invest in a business continuity (BC) program. One point we made was that insurance against loss is typically not enough, so the additional […]
Why Organizations Invest in Business Continuity – Business Continuity 101
In the third piece of our Business Continuity 101 Series, we delve into why organizations invest in business continuity, dispelling common BC misconceptions, and explaining value-based BC investment. A common point of […]