May 17 kicks off an important week—it’s Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW), a week led by the BCI and sponsored by Riskonnect (formerly Castellan), where we celebrate and encourage the spread of business continuity awareness to [...]
Building business resilience has risen to the top of the priority list to navigate today’s nearly constant flow of disruption. Over the past few years, businesses have had to keep up with a crush [...]
In a recent blog post, I talked about how operational resiliency is changing the way we approach business continuity, highlighting, in the simplest terms, how operational resiliency and business continuity work hand-in-hand to make organizations [...]
Business continuity is much more than making plans to deal with disasters and disruptions. It’s now an integral part of a broader resilience effort—not just during a crisis, but continuously, through all the ups [...]
This is part 1 of a two-part blog series about executive sponsorship for business continuity program success. In part 1, we take a look at the benefits of executive sponsorship, and in part 2, [...]
When it comes to building a business continuity management program that best suits your organization’s unique needs, there are a variety of frameworks from which to choose. Business continuity management frameworks form a foundation [...]
COVID-19 is changing the core of the American workforce. With federal social distancing mandates and local stay-at-home orders, many organizations are putting business continuity plans into action. Teams that once worked shoulder-to-shoulder have shifted [...]
Disruptions and disasters can affect businesses of all sizes. In many cases, these incidents don’t prevent long-term access to your locations, but when it does, what’s your plan? For many, a work-from-home option for [...]
When you first tackle business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) planning, you may not have all the details and resources you need. Because of that, you may begin your program with assumptions about [...]
BUSINESS CONTINUITY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Nearly every business continuity standard and regulation require clearly articulated roles and responsibilities. This includes ISO 22301, the Business Continuity Institute’s Good Practice Guidelines, Disaster Recovery Institute, FFIEC requirements [...]
We see a lot of confusion specific to the topic of force majeure. Often, executive management has the belief that force majeure clauses in their contracts protect them from a wide variety of disruptive [...]
CAREFULLY CONSIDER “AGILE BUSINESS CONTINUITY” Many business executives are asking those responsible for business continuity – and the managers of other disciplines as well – “Should we implement Agile in our program?” It’s a [...]
