What Service Providers Need to Know About Supply Chain Risk Management
Many service providers tune out talk about supply chain risk management since they think the issue only affects manufacturers and retailers. In fact, service providers are also vulnerable to vendor disruptions and […]
How to Help Your Organization Get Through a Ransomware Attack
Ransomware attacks are increasing in frequency and severity. As a business continuity professional, there are steps you can take before and during such an attack to help your organization get through with […]
A Backward Glance: Revisiting Our Key Blog Posts from 2021
With 2021 winding down, the time is ripe to revisit some of our key blog posts from the past year. It’s also a good time to thank everyone for reading and remind […]
Making the Most of the Hybrid Emergency Operations Center
The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has gone hybrid. In today’s post we’ll look at how to make the most of this increasingly prevalent innovation. Related on MHA Consulting: After the Smoke Clears: 7 Things to […]
The Future of COVID-19: Predictions Are Hard, Preparing Is Easy
Trying to predict the next twist in the COVID-19 pandemic is a fool’s errand, but no matter what happens, you should retain your pandemic skills. We’re all past trying to predict the next twist […]
Helping Your Organization Retain Its Pandemic Survival Skills
Sooner or later, the pandemic will ease up and business life will get back to something like normal. With more disease outbreaks likely in the future, it’s important that organizations not lose their hard-won pandemic […]
Taking Care of Business: How to Write a Business Recovery Plan
Last time, we looked at how to write recovery plans to protect your organization’s computer systems and applications. In today’s post we’re going to lay out how to write plans to recover […]
The Science and Art of Writing an IT/DR Recovery Plan
There are two main aspects to writing a disaster recovery plan: The science of knowing what to include and the art of writing the content. Today’s blog takes a look at both […]
Stack Attack: A Brief Guide to the IT Stack for BC Professionals
Business continuity professionals need a minimal grasp of IT concepts in order to do their jobs, but many BC pros are in a fog when it comes to IT terminology. In today’s post we’re […]
A Sample Threat and Risk Assessment: The Case of Acme Widget Corp.
A picture is worth a thousand words, and an example might be worth a thousand pictures. In today’s post, we present a sample Threat and Risk Assessment. The original of this TRA was for […]
Hit or Myth: 5 Common Misconceptions About IT/disaster recovery
One definition of a myth is something you know for sure that happens to be untrue. Today we’re going to look at five commonly held myths about IT/disaster recovery. These are things […]