Resiliency Consulting: Helping Companies Get In Peak Condition
In today’s world, businesses face not only stiff competition from rivals but also a uniquely tumultuous global environment. Resiliency consultants can help them develop the toughness required to thrive. Related on MHA […]
Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management
For the past few years the news has been a drumbeat of threatening events—and the beat seems to be growing louder. In such times, the best thing an organization can do is […]
BCM Basics: The BC Professional’s Role in Data Protection
This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. Data is a critical asset for almost every organization […]
Risk Assessment: The Best Way to Identify Your Biggest Threats
The threat and risk assessment or TRA is one of the cornerstones of business continuity methodology. Today, we’ll talk about what it is, why it’s important, and how to do one. Related […]
BCM Basics: Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk
This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. If you spend any time at all in the […]
Cyber Self-Defense: Prepare for the No. 1 Threat By Taking These Five Steps
Cyberattacks remain the number-one threat to organizations’ ability to keep their mission-critical operations running. Today’s post lays out five key measures your company should have in place to harden its computer systems […]
Out of the Loop: When the BCM Office is the Last to Know
Here is an irony for you: at many organizations, the business continuity office is often the last to know when something happens that threatens to disrupt the business. The cause of this […]
Eat the Frog: Tackling the Tough BCM Challenges You Habitually Put Off
Almost every business continuity management program has gaps that are well-known to the BCM office but never addressed, usually because closing them would be hard. However, in many cases, tackling those BCM […]
Enter the Matrix: Why You Should Employ a Risk Management Matrix
One of the best tools for assessing and reducing risk is a risk management matrix. Today’s blog provides an example of such a matrix and explains how and why to use one. […]
A Great Place to Start: The ISO 31000 Risk Management Guidelines
Every organization that is determined to get serious about risk management should know about ISO 31000. This set of risk management guidelines from the International Standards Organization sets out a smart, easy-to-implement […]
Data Preservation: What to Include in Your Data Protection Policy
Most companies have solid overall default data backup plans; however, many do not have sufficient processes or controls for ensuring proper data protection based on business requirements. To avoid the development of […]
A Cool Job of the Future: Operational Risk Consultant
Our current environment of rising global uncertainty is spurring organizations’ interest in business continuity and operational risk management. As a result, the position of operational risk consultant appears likely to become one […]
