Risk Management

Recent events in the news as well as trends in my own work have reminded me of how important it is for business continuity professionals to help protect their organizations against the impact of [...]

Once you’ve identified the risks facing your organization, you need to consciously select a risk mitigation strategy for each one. In today’s post, we’ll explain the four possible strategies and [...]

The Threat and Risk Assessment (TRA) is one aspect of business continuity that has come under criticism recently. In our opinion, this tool remains highly valuable, provided it is used correctly. [...]

Many experts believe that the chance of an influenza pandemic or similar outbreak sweeping across the globe is high and growing higher every year. In today’s post, we’ll set forth some of the [...]

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 [...]