Fire and Rain: Adapting to an Era of Global Instability
Geopolitical risk is arguably at the highest level it’s been in 50 years. Here’s what organizations can do to protect themselves. Related on MHA Consulting: Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a […]
Be a Hard Target: Train Your Employees in Security Awareness
Most organizations today are justifiably obsessed with cybersecurity, but many overlook their greatest IT vulnerability: their employees. The best way to strengthen a company’s defenses is by providing every employee with security […]
The Human Factor: BCM Team Roles and Skill Requirements
Knowing what roles should be represented on the business continuity management (BCM) team and what kind of people should fill them is an overlooked key to success in making organizations resilient. In […]
BCM Basics: the Difference Between Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. For business continuity newcomers, few topics are as confusing […]
BCM Basics: “Continuity” Defined
This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. People new to our field are often puzzled by […]
The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional
Over time, organisms that are capable of adapting to change thrive while those that don’t go extinct. The same thing is true of organizations and business continuity professionals. In today’s post, we’ll […]
Leading by (Bad) Example: Companies in the News Show What Not to Do
It’s never very hard to find examples of companies whose casual approach to resiliency and crisis management has come back to bite them. Two of the latest are Ticketmaster and Southwest Airlines. […]
Why Every BC Professional Should Become a Gap Hunter
Business continuity professionals who want to make their organizations more resilient should make a conscious effort to become gap hunters. Time spent identifying and closing gaps in the organization’s preparedness is an […]
How to Get Strong: Unlocking the Power of Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability management is the practice of identifying and mitigating the weaknesses in an organization’s people, processes, and technology. It’s a practical, down-to-earth approach that focuses on small things, but it has the […]
Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated
The past couple of decades have seen huge changes in the world and our field. Read on for a list of a dozen business continuity practices that have fallen into disuse or […]
Threat Intelligence: A Key Capability for Our Turbulent Times
There was a time when only the military had to concern itself with scanning the horizon for potential dangers. But in our current period of an ever-expanding set of global threats, most […]
Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises
In business continuity, testing of all types can lay claim to a rare distinction: it is simultaneously one of the most important parts of any program, and one of the most neglected. […]
