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 [...]
When it comes to incident response, proactive communication is often considered an afterthought. Do you know how you’re going to send emergency notifications to your employees or vendors during inclement weather situations? How will you [...]
When catastrophe hits a fighter pilot’s aircraft, his parachute is his backup plan, his means to get back on the ground without further injury. But if his parachute is poorly maintained, incorrectly packed, not [...]
When an incident occurs, having an effective communication plan and procedures in place plays a vital role in the effectiveness of an organization. Communication plans are especially important when actively managing a situation and [...]
When examined from the outside, some people may think that business continuity, risk management and insurance may be different names for the same thing. While these terms, and essentially different business functions, do have [...]
Though many business continuity standards emphasize the importance of tracking corrective actions to address identified issues, the recently published ISO 22301 (and previously BS 25999-2) also requires conducting a root cause analysis – looking not just [...]
As the GDPR comes into effect, many marketers are scrambling to align their online marketing strategies to the regulation. Unfortunately, like most regulations, there are many requirements that are confusing or ambiguous; one of [...]
