Roadmap to Resiliency

Over the past 18 months, most organizations have made changes to their business continuity plans to increase their resiliency. Unfortunately, few have taken the critical next step of measuring [...]

Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has siphoned attention away from many other problems, including that of ransomware attacks—but organizations are still being locked out of their systems [...]

The recent blockage of the Suez Canal was a rare event that pointed up the need for companies to undertake a certain vital activity every single day: risk management. In today’s post, we’ll [...]

Many people are confused about what it means to comply with a business continuity standard and when a company should do this. There are three scenarios under which a company might be complying [...]

Everyone involved in business continuity management knows that the concepts of RTO and RPO are important. Knowing exactly what they are, how they should be used, why they matter, and how to [...]

Events in Texas this week drew attention to what could happen to companies that are unprepared for a lengthy power outage. But this is only one of many types of failure to plan that can cause [...]

There’s a lot more to IT Disaster Recovery than backups and recovery. In today’s post we’ll look at the IT/DR job functions that must be performed in order to ensure that any organization’s IT [...]

As with most fields, business continuity has its fair share of beliefs that are commonly held but contrary to the truth. In today’s post, we’ll look at nine business continuity myths and then [...]

A look at the risks companies are exposed to through vulnerable vendors and some ideas on how organizations can plug the gaps and increase their security.

Even horrible events can sometimes lead to a few good consequences. Without minimizing the awful toll of COVID-19, it’s worth noting that the pandemic has driven a handful of positive changes in [...]