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Business Continuity & BCM Blog
Brexit & COVID-19: A Changing View on Continuity and Resilience
Extreme Weather: Another ‘New Normal’ for Business Continuity Planning
As a CEO, Would a Cyber Breach Put Your Job at Risk?
7 Tips to Find an Executive Sponsor for Your Business Continuity Program
Why An Executive Sponsor is a Critical Part of Your Business Continuity Program
Has COVID-19 Accelerated Business Continuity Migration to the Cloud?
7 Tips to Increase Business Continuity Software Adoption
6 Quick Wins to Get the Most Out of Your New Business Continuity Program
ISO 22330: Adding People Management to Your Business Continuity Planning
Reflecting on the Summer of COVID, Tips to Make the Most of Fall
Supporting Employees During Disruptions Builds Operational Resiliency
Was COVID-19 a ‘Black Swan’?
Horizon Scanning: It’s Not Magic, But It Can Be a Crystal Ball For Business Continuity Risks
8 Reasons Why Your BC Program Should Be ISO 22301 Certified
What Does a Shift in Focus Mean for Business Resilience in a Post-COVID-19 World?
BCI Report Insights: Coronavirus’ Impact Likely to Be Measured in Years, Not Months
2020: Not a Normal Year—Even for Hurricanes
After COVID-19 Business as Usual (BAU) is Not Going to Be BAU
Why Business Continuity Software? Why Now?
Improve Your Business Continuity Program With Geo-Mapping
COVID19 Underscores Why Organizations Need Business Continuity Programs
How an Automated Notification System Helps Tackle COVID-19 Related Business Challenges
Cyber Insurance Alone Isn’t Enough to Protect Your Business
Looking Backward to Face Forward: Lessons from the COVID19 Frontlines
Effective Crisis Leadership: Navigating the Pandemic and Other Business Crises
Pandemic Response and Recovery: A CEO’s Perspective
The Role of Human Resources in Business Continuity Planning
Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation in the Midst of Pandemic
Epidemic or Pandemic? They’re Different and Why It Matters
How Data Privacy Should Fit Into Your Pandemic Plan
So You Don’t Have a Pandemic Plan, Now What?
Remote Working: Decrease Cyber Risk by Practicing Good Cyber Hygiene
Are You Prepared for a Recall?
Part 3: Best Practices to Improve Incident Management Exercises – Conduct & Review
Part 2: Best Practices to Improve Incident Management Exercises – Define & Design
Part 1: Best Practices to Improve Incident Management Exercises – Preparation
More Than Just a Hiccup: Coronavirus and Global Supply Chain Disruptions
Isolated Incidents: Can You Plan For Them and Should You?
Adopt A Risk-Based Approach For Audit Success
Is "Work-From-Home" a Viable Contingency Plan for Disruptions?
Mobile Access to BC Plans: Mobilize Faster, Respond Rapidly, and Coordinate Recovery
Toss the Spreadsheet and Start Building a More Resilient Program with BCM Software
Mitigate Your Risks: Tips for Business Continuity Planning for Natural Disasters
7 Assumptions That Can Derail Your Business Continuity Plans
The Cost of Ransomware and the Helping Hand of Business Continuity
6 Benefits of Working with a Business Continuity Advisor
Formjacking and Island Hopping Increasing Threats for Supply Chains and Operations
5 Ways Your Supply Chain Could Be at Risk for Disruption
The 3 Core Components of a Healthy Business Continuity Program
Updated Version of ISO 22301...What's New?
Is Your Emergency Notification System Crisis-Ready?
Communication is the Key to Effective Incident Management
How to Avoid Accidentally Creating a Real Incident with Your Next BC/DR Exercise
When Surprise Business Continuity Exercises Go Awry: 4 Real-Life Examples
What Features Do Users Want Most in Business Continuity Software?
5 Signs Your Business Continuity Management Software Isn’t Meeting Your Needs
The Future of Emergency Notification is Embedded in Your Business Continuity Tool
Perfect Plans Fail: Why Don’t Companies Routinely BC Test?
Is a Centralized or Decentralized Business Continuity Program Best for Your Organization?
7 Ways to Empower Your Mid-Level Managers to Become BC Champions
Enhancing Organizational Engagement in BC Using a Proven Technique: “Tone From the Middle”
3 Steps for Developing Your Crisis Communication Plan
Don’t Underestimate the Need for Tight Cloud Security
Is Human Resources the Key to Building a Culture of Resilience?
Practice What You Preach: Preparedness in the Home
Tuning Up Your Emergency Management Notification System (EMNS)
Critical, Often-Overlooked Questions to Ask When Evaluating BC Vendors
Hurricane Season: Steps to Prepare Now
How to Ramp Up Vendor Risk Resiliency
3 Tactics for Driving Organizational Engagement in Business Continuity
Why Effective Communication is the Key to Emergency Response
7 Business Continuity Plan Questions To Ask When Developing Your BCP
Data Breaches Ranked in Top-Five Global Threats
How to Ensure Supply Chain Resiliency – Here’s Your Checklist
How to Get the Most Out of Your BCP Tabletop Test
Account Takeover (ATO) Fraud
Tornado Season – Is Your Organization Prepared?
8 Ways a BCMP Can (Positively) Impact Cyber Breach Costs
7 Things Not to Do During and After a Cyber Breach
How Can You Use Social Media to Control a Crisis?
How Can You Leverage KPIs to Gain BCMP Executive Buy-In?
Top 10 FEMA Checklists That Add Value to Your BC and Emergency Response Plans
How Can You Protect Your Small Business Against Cyber Crime?
More Than Half of All Cyber Attacks Hit Small Businesses – Why?
14 Business Continuity Metrics You Should Track As KPIs
5 Steps Towards Building a Continuity Culture for BCMP Success
Why Do You Need Quality Metrics for Your Business Continuity Program?
The Magnitude of Multi-Factor Authentications
Avoid the 9 Ways a Business Continuity Plan Can Fail
How Safe is Your (Smart) City?
Bring Your Own Device…without Bringing Risk
White Hackers Go Dark to Help Enterprises Fight Cyber Crime
Business Continuity Plan Components: Do You Have The Right Ingredients?
Who are the Cyber Criminals?
Emergency Communication Software – Answering the Call for Communication Evolution
2018 Cyber Crime: A Warning for 2019
The Hunt for Hackers
Tech and Pharma – Making Beautiful Business Together
2018 Quake: Alaska Does Preparedness Right
Pharma – Bearing the Cross of Business Continuity
Data Integrity – “Keeping It Clean” in Pharma
Pharma’s Crucial Recovery Concerns in the Wake of Disaster
How Your BC/DR Plan Can Sink – and How You Can Stay Afloat
A Remedy for Pharma BCMP Executive Buy-In
Weak Links in a Pharma’s Supply Chain
What’s Your Cyber Crime IQ?
Cryptojacking – What It Is and Why You Need to Know
Pharma Cyber Attacks – Preparing for the Inevitable
GDPR Side Effects on Pharma
Looking at Third-Party Risk, Brought to You by China
Hacking Democracy – Cyber Security and Elections
Cyber Security Challenges Threatening Pharma
Data Visualization – Painting Valuable Pictures for Pharma
A Cyber Security Culture for Better Cyber Protection
Protecting Patient Information in Pharma
Meet Your New Cyber Security Guardian – Your CISO
Blockchain Linking Pharma to Efficiency and Security
Share the Cyber Security Responsibility
Higher Dosage of Pharma M&As Needs BCM Prescription
Cyber Breach Pokes Facebook with Possible GDPR Violation
Review Retaliation Spotlights Reputational Vulnerability
Let’s Get Enterprise-Wide Buy-In
Shoplifting Continues to Stock Huge Threat for Retailers
Extreme Emergency Planning – Paranoid or Prepared?
Preparing the Next Generation of Cyber Defenders
Blockchain’s Benefits and Risks in Retail
Close Those Continuity Gaps
Business Continuity Challenges of the Modern Retailer
Your Business Continuity Cheat Sheet
Retail in the Cloud
Table Top Testing for Success – 10 Tips
What’s Your Business Continuity IQ?
Cyber Crime Stats Display Need for Cyber BCM in Retail
High Merger & Acquisition Activity in Retail Industry
Weathering Disaster with Retail Emergency Planning
Getting Creative with Assurance Connect
Is Your BCM Program Agile Enough?
Women in Business Continuity Management
Year-Round BCM for Seasonal Shopping
Retail Needs Big Data, Big Data Needs BCM
Retail Versus E-Tail Business Continuity Risks
Don’t Devalue Business Continuity for Innovation
Ticketmaster Breach - Lesson in Third-Party Vetting
Balancing Customer Data Protection and Convenience
Don’t Be a Sitting Duck! Avoid Complacency in BCM
UK CO2 Shortage Sends Hiccups Throughout Supply Chains
What Does the GDPR Have in Store for Retailers?
Why Emergency Notifications Alone Aren’t Enough
10 Characteristics To Look For In A BCM Solution
The Insurance Industry – From Uninteresting to Innovative
Europe’s GDPR Nudging Insurance Industry
BCM, Insurance and Risk Management Defined: What’s the Difference?
What a Successful BC Program Looks Like
Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Power Outage
Behind the Scenes of a Connect Data Integration
BCM Can Help Insurers Withstand Interest Rate Changes
BCM Efforts Should Practice What Companies Preach
Assurance Software and OnSolve: Partners Committed to Customer Resiliency
What Should a Future-Proofing Framework Look Like?
It’s Full Steam Ahead for Assurance Software as a Standalone Company
Propelling Ahead of Tech Competitors with BCM
Customer Research – How Assurance Achieves Great User Experience
Regulating Executive Buy-In for Cybersecurity in New York State
Resurgens Technology Purchases Assurance Software
Is Your Organization a Target for a Cyber Attack?
School District Gets Lesson in Cyber Crime Preparedness
April’s Cyber Crime & News Recap
What Insurers Need to Know About Cyber Threats
Approval is Just the Beginning of Business Continuity
Printers – A Business Continuity Risk?
5 Reasons You Need Data Integration Software for Your BCM
To BCP or Not to BCP?
Future-Proofing Makes Business Continuity Sense
Trending Technology and Your BC Plan
Another Puerto Rico Power Outage, Another Lesson in BCM
Learn How to Conduct a Surprise DR Exercise
Facebook Hearings Show The Need For Connected BCM
“InsurTech” Making Insurers Rethink Organizational Resilience
The Technology Sector's Greatest Threat Is Behind Its Own Door
YouTube Active Shooter Reinforces Need for Preparedness Practices
The BC Plan DIY Dilemma
‘Security Pledge’ for Tech Giants Shows Need for BCM Protection
Lord & Taylor’s Easter Surprise: A Cyber Attack Example of Data Breach Preparedness
Don’t Be Fooled: Run a Surprise DR Test
No Time to Focus on Data Management? Get Connect(ed)
The Secret to Solving the Top Financial Services Industry Challenges
Your Guide To Security Through Business Continuity Management
Survival Tips for a Business Continuity Plan Through a Merger
How to Build a Healthcare BC Plan From the Ground Up
Get Leadership Involved in Your BCDR Program
The Good, the Bad, and the Risky – Blockchain in the Finance Industry
Business Continuity Management – Healthcare’s Antidote
New York City Measles Case: Rethink Emergency Notification
Defending Your Organization in the Digital Age
Increased Patient Demands – Why and How They Affect BCM
Why Financial Service Providers Need to Compare BC Plans
Why Knowing Ransomware is Critical for BCM
Using the Olympic Spirit to Inspire Your Business Continuity Planning
You’ve Planned for an Incident – Now What?
Hints for Healthcare Business Continuity Audit Success
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