Be Ransomware Resilient: Know How to Operate Manually
A ransomware attack has the potential to leave your organization without its computer systems for days or weeks. Make your business ransomware resilient by figuring out how to perform your most mission-critical […]
What Service Providers Need to Know About Supply Chain Risk Management
Many service providers tune out talk about supply chain risk management since they think the issue only affects manufacturers and retailers. In fact, service providers are also vulnerable to vendor disruptions and […]
A Backward Glance: Revisiting Our Key Blog Posts from 2021
With 2021 winding down, the time is ripe to revisit some of our key blog posts from the past year. It’s also a good time to thank everyone for reading and remind […]
The Best Policy: The Core Element of a Good BCM Program Is Honesty
You can’t have a good business continuity management or BCM program without the core elements of BIAs, TRAs, recovery plans, and exercises, but it’s possible that the most important element of all […]
Staying Current: Why You Need to Keep Your BCM Plans Up to Date
Many organizations bring great energy to the job of creating new business continuity plans, then they put them on a shelf and allow the passage of time to make them obsolete. In today’s post, we’ll look at […]
8 Oversights That Can Bring Your Operations to a Standstill
Events in Texas this week drew attention to what could happen to companies that are unprepared for a lengthy power outage. But this is only one of many types of failure to […]
Continuing to Thrive: A Definition of Business Continuity
If you are new to the world of business continuity, you might have asked yourself, What exactly is business continuity, anyway? In today’s post, we’re going to define business continuity by taking […]
A Robust Business Continuity Plan in 20 Steps
Contrary to popular belief, a business continuity plan is not a single document but an aggregate of assessments, processes, and checklists. In today’s post, we’ll lay out the process of creating a […]
The Plan that Time Forgot: The Importance of Protecting Your Business Processes
When it comes to protecting your business, department-level business continuity plans make a critical difference. Achieving true resiliency at an organization depends on its being robustly prepared in three areas: crisis management, […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Using Business Continuity Templates
Many organizations use templates to help them craft their business continuity plans. In our opinion, this is an excellent way of going about doing it. The “good” of using templates is significant […]
How Your Business Continuity Plan Is Like Swiss Cheese
If your business continuity plan is like most of the plans we see, then it is highly likely that it bears more than a passing resemblance to Swiss cheese. We don’t mean […]
Building an Effective BCM Program: Step 1 – Know Yourself
A couple of months ago we published an ebook entitled “10 Keys to a Peak-Performing BCM Program,” written by MHA Consulting CEO Michael Herrera. It’s available for free download here and is […]