Business Continuity Planning

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 [...]

People in business continuity talk a lot about black swans: unexpected events that come from outside normal experience and have strongly negative effects. Black swan events are definitely worth [...]

Given the title of this blog, you might wonder why a consultant whose focus is technology recovery would advise you not to rely on technology to keep your business running during a crisis. The [...]

As you know, a leading trend of the past several years is organizations’ hiring third-party vendors to provide services that they previously performed in-house. At MHA, we are familiar with this [...]

In case you missed it, MHA Consulting CEO Michael Herrera last month conducted a webinar called “Your New BFFs – Compliance and Residual Risk.” (BFFs means Best Friends Forever, for those who [...]

It seems the first question asked for any task is, “Is there an app for that?” Much of what we do in business continuity is planning and protecting systems and applications. Quite a bit of what [...]

Many organizations use templates to help them craft their business continuity plans. In our opinion, this is an excellent way of going about doing it. The “good” of using templates is significant [...]

Traditionally, business continuity consulting engagements have been one size fits all, with that size being large or comprehensive. In other words, if you wanted to hire a consultant to help your [...]

Did you know that business continuity management professionals are a lot like family doctors? Let’s rephrase that: BCM professionals SHOULD conduct themselves like family doctors, in many [...]

If your business continuity plan is like most of the plans we see, then it is highly likely that it bears more than a passing resemblance to Swiss cheese. We don’t mean that it would taste very [...]