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 […]
The Top 8 Risk Mitigation Controls, in Order
Risk mitigation controls are the measures we take to reduce the risks our organizations face in carrying out their operations. This blog lays out and explains the top eight controls in order […]
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 […]
How a Risk Maturity Model Can Increase Your Company’s Resilience
The risk maturity model is a key component of business continuity. In today’s post, we’ll look at how such a model can help an organization understand its risks, mitigate the risks that […]
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 […]
Global Turmoil Making You Ill? Try a Dose of Risk Management
For the past few years the news has been a drumbeat of threatening events—and the beat seems to be growing louder. In such times, the best thing an organization can do is […]
Risk Assessment: The Best Way to Identify Your Biggest Threats
The threat and risk assessment or TRA is one of the cornerstones of business continuity methodology. Today, we’ll talk about what it is, why it’s important, and how to do one. Related […]
Strengthening the Chain: Four Steps to a More Secure Corporate Supply Chain
Supply chain insecurity has emerged as one of the leading threats to business, but most organizations continue to lag when it comes to protecting their access to critical goods and services. In […]
BCM Basics: Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk
This post is part of BCM Basics, a series of occasional, entry-level blogs on some of the key concepts in business continuity management. If you spend any time at all in the […]
A Great Place to Start: The ISO 31000 Risk Management Guidelines
Every organization that is determined to get serious about risk management should know about ISO 31000. This set of risk management guidelines from the International Standards Organization sets out a smart, easy-to-implement […]
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 […]
