Risk Management

The holiday season, with its festive atmosphere, gift giving, and family visits and traditions is many people’s favorite time of year. However, it also brings a few unique hazards. (What other [...]

The holiday season brings a festive atmosphere to many workplaces, but the relaxed attitude can create unique challenges in terms of facility security. In today’s post I’ll share some tips to [...]

In today’s post, we’re going to answer questions about risk management that we’ve been asked recently by readers of our blogs and by MHA Consulting clients. What’s so important about risk and [...]

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, risk is at the center of everything we do. Therefore, we thought it might be helpful to make today’s blog a primer on risk. Most of this stuff you probably already learned [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Organizations of all sizes are increasingly turning to third-party vendors to handle tasks which would formerly have been performed in-house. Such tasks can range from payroll and accounting to [...]

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 [...]

So 2017 is in the rear-view mirror, and here comes 2018, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. What should we be ready for this year in terms of risk management trends? Here are three that are likely [...]