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 […]
Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals
For those with a suitable temperament and skill set, a career in risk management can be rewarding due to the field’s broad scope, consequential nature, and rising prominence. In this week’s post, […]
These 8 Risk Domains Are the Meat and Potatoes of Risk Management
As a practical activity, enterprise risk management (ERM) centers on eight distinct risk domains, some strategic and some operational. In today’s post, we’ll lay out what these domains are, reveal which ones […]
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 […]
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 […]
A BC Consultant’s View of the Risks of Generative AI
These days everyone is talking about the risks of generative AI technology such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool. In today’s blog, we’ll look at those risks from the point of view of a […]
What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Risk
For most entrepreneurs, worrying about risk takes a back seat to bringing in revenue and building their company’s brand. This is natural. But as their companies grow, business owners can and should […]
Reviewing the Five Types of Risk
The recent announcement of the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic makes this a good time to review the five types of risk. During COVID, business tended to focus on only two […]
Why BCM and ERM Should Be BFFs
Sometimes questions arise about the relationship between the business continuity management (BCM) team and the enterprise risk management (ERM) department. The fact is, both units—as well as the organization—benefit when BCM and […]
The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk
Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The […]
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 […]
