Today’s Threat Environment: How Vulnerable is Your Business?
Today’s threat environment is more complex than ever before, requiring that businesses be prepared to combat attacks from many different directions. In our world today, our threat environment may include many outages […]
Vendor Risk Management – Where to Start
Vendor management gets a lot of attention these days, but have you considered the risk associated with your vendors? When was the last time you conducted a vendor-related risk assessment? Is vendor […]
BIA and Risk Assessment: Why Both Are Important
Can you describe the differences and benefits of the BIA and Risk Assessment? Today’s short blog may help you provide answers when the questions arise. You just spent time completing a Business Impact […]
Risk Limitation – Real World Examples
In recent blogs we have discussed various aspects of risk mitigation, including risk acceptance, risk avoidance, risk limitation, and risk transference. This week’s blog will focus primarily on the area of risk […]
Your Data Recovery Plans are (Probably) not Functional
If your data recovery plans are lengthy, detailed, and/or “bare metal” based, requiring comprehensive operating system, database and application recovery steps, then they are almost certainly out of date and not functional. […]
Developing Disaster Recovery Strategies
The right disaster recovery strategies can mean the difference between a swift recovery and a business-imploding We know. Disaster recovery isn’t a fun subject. Sometimes it can When developing functional disaster recovery […]
Risk Acceptance – Conscious Decision or Ignorance?
Risk Acceptance must be a conscious decision, not a default action due to lack of information or desire to act. Risk Assessments and Risk Mitigation remain important topics in many association groups […]
Understanding Actual Risks to Your Organization
Understanding actual risks to your organization is a good place to start with any competent business continuity and resilience plan. There is not a single risk profile. Depending on the type […]
How Secure is your Facility?
How Secure is your Facility? Are you leaving your business vulnerable? What would happen in a disaster situation? These aren’t questions we like to think about, but they are neccesary. On a […]
Understanding your individual & family risk profile
Richard Long, Senior Advisory Consultant, MHA Consulting Along with the rest of the world, I have been thinking about and praying for those in Japan and Ecuador. When these tragic events occurred […]
Is Business Continuity Broken?
There has been a lot of talk lately in the Business Continuity industry about a “next generation” of Business Continuity planning. In a recent article from Continuity Central, David Lundstedt asserts that […]
Mitigating Controls and Your Business Recovery Plans.
Understanding what residual risk remains after we have implemented all of the mitigating controls available to us is essential for a strong BCM program. In the world of Business Continuity Management (BCM), […]