Risk Management

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 [...]

One of the biggest trends in business today can be summed up by an acronym that is (almost) completely familiar to anyone who has ever taken their own bottle of wine to a restaurant or house [...]

Thanksgiving is as good a time as any to acknowledge the fact that some IT departments, when it comes to being able to restore their organizations’ data in the event of an outage, are real [...]

You identified risks, then chose and implemented a mitigation strategy. Unfortunately, you have not completed the job. Monitoring risk, including tracking identified risks and evaluating the [...]