Business Continuity Planning

Bringing in a business continuity (BC) consultant can make your life easier, but it’s not necessarily easy to find one that is right for your organization—or to know when and how to make the best [...]

Too many business continuity professionals lack a clear and deep understanding of their own business continuity management (BCM) programs. In today’s post, we’ll examine the benefits of accurate [...]

Many organizations are at risk to some extent by single points of failure, resources that have no redundancy and whose loss could have a significant impact. In fact, this is a surprisingly [...]

In business continuity, we have a tendency to focus on what’s wrong with our programs or organizations. However, it’s important that we also take time to recognize what we’re doing right. Today’s [...]

Sometimes business continuity or BCM standards can go from making your program better to holding it back. This can happen if you use the wrong standard or take the wrong approach to aligning with [...]

Do you know the book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”? Today’s post is about sweating the big stuff. It lays out the five things that matter most for the success of your organization’s business [...]

It must be human nature to worry more about serious dangers that are unlikely to happen than moderate ones whose likelihood of happening is high. This would explain why the term “shark attack” [...]

Has your organization ever been attacked by zombies? We don’t know any companies that have been, although we do know some that have used this as a scenario in their disaster recovery exercises. [...]

We talk a lot about the need to mitigate the operational risks of a business disruption: what if your organization loses access to a key facility or suffers a ransomware attack or experiences the [...]

For organizations, social media is the new Wild West: There is no sheriff, vigilante justice is the order of the day, and things can get very crazy very quickly. If you don’t believe me, just ask [...]