Staying Safe While Browsing the Web: How You Can Help Protect Your Organization
The internet is like a big city with lots of amazing sights and many useful services—but also many shady areas and lurking predators. And the predators don’t necessarily stick to the bad […]
GDPR Compliance: A Heads-Up for Business Continuity Professionals
Cold weather has set in in many parts of the U.S., but for those wanting relief, I suggest you think ahead to the month of May. By next May, many nice things […]
Email Security: How BC Professionals Can Help Their Companies Stay Safe
These days social media is the little red sports car of communications platforms while email is more like your father’s Oldsmobile. However, the fact is, email is still the mainstay of internal […]
How to Create a Budget for Your Business Continuity Program
Okay, everyone, raise your hand if you looked at the headline of this article and thought, “Wait a second, why is Herrera writing about my business continuity budget when everybody just finished […]
The New World of BYOD: How You Can Help Your Organization Stay Safe
One of the biggest trends in business today can be summed up by an acronym that is (almost) completely familiar to anyone who has ever taken their own bottle of wine to […]
The Human Side of Conducting BIAs
One of the most interesting engagements MHA Consulting had this year was at a Fortune 500 company where 3 of our consultants conducted approximately 100 BIAs. Over the course of that engagement, […]
Helping Your Employees Stay Safe When Using Non-Company Wi-Fi Networks
MHA Corporate Security Awareness Series In recent years a great deal of attention has been focused on the threat that hostile outsiders and disgruntled employees pose to companies’ data and computer networks. […]
The 5 Biggest IT Management Mistakes
Thanksgiving is as good a time as any to acknowledge the fact that some IT departments, when it comes to being able to restore their organizations’ data in the event of an […]
Data Integrity: Ensuring Your Critical Business Information Is Reliable and Recoverable
I am a big coffee drinker, so I naturally found it interesting last week when I talked to someone who told me about a persistent problem he had at a coffee shop […]
Protecting Your IT in the World of Decentralized Computing
The data breach at Equifax that was revealed in September affected up to 143 million consumers. It is considered one of the worst such breaches ever, based on the sensitivity of the […]
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 […]
Deciding Between Creating Your Own Enterprise BCM Software Or Buying Off the Shelf
As anyone who has ever braved the Saturday crowds in Home Depot knows, we Americans love to do things ourselves. In fact, our love of “do-it-yourself” is so great it has pushed […]