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Business Continuity Management Software – The Clamor for Ease of Use
‘The solution has to be easy to use’. Â ‘Our end-users log in once, maybe twice, a year to update their business continuity plans and their…
Incident Management 102 – Planning for Incident Response
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans often rely on assumptions (read more about them here). Some Business Continuity plans are very effective response plans but…
Incident Management 101 – Assessment
This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the critical components of Incident Management. Every Business Continuity Management program ought to understand the…
Residual Risk – A Key Business Continuity Concept
Residual Risk: if you’re not familiar with the term, you should learn how it applies to your Business Continuity Management program. In pulmonary science (the…
Business Continuity – Is Risk Assessment Relevant?
Risk Assessments have always been a ‘best practice’ in Business Continuity Management. That classic legacy approach has required a thorough examination of threats & vulnerabilities,…
Assumptions: Business Continuity Plan Killers
Assumptions are the IED’s (Improvised Explosive Devices) of Business Continuity. Anyone can create one and, once strategically placed (usually tucked among the Mission Statement and…
No More BCP Scenarios – Throw away those Crutches!
When you can’t put your full weight on your foot or leg because of an injury or surgery, you can still get around using crutches.…
BCM Simplified: It doesn’t have to be Complicated
The Business Continuity industry, consultants and associations have created a long list of standards, best practices guides, methodologies and certification processes. Sometimes, implementing these recommendations…
When Does Your Clock Start? The Business Continuity RTO Conundrum
Your Disaster Recovery Plan has a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) – or, perhaps multiple RTO’s for each Application or Service being recovered). Your Business Continuity…