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Health Care Cybersecurity and Resiliency Act: Bill Underscores Need for Organizations to Step Up

Richard Long

Making the Grade: Navigating Compliance Challenges in Business Continuity Management

Michael Herrera

Top Business Continuity Trends for 2025

Richard Long

Budgeting for Resilience: How to Obtain Funding for Business Continuity in 2025

Michael Herrera

Beyond Headquarters: Why Every Location Needs a Crisis Management Team

Richard Long

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Crisis Managers

Michael Herrera

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024: Renew Your Effort to Fortify Your Digital Defenses

Richard Long

Exploring DORA: The EU’s Excellent New Digital Resilience Standard

Michael Herrera

Beyond the Crib Sheet: Basic Preparations for Improving Your Resilience

Richard Long

In an Ancient Land, Glimpsing the Future of Business Continuity

Michael Herrera

Weathering the Storm: Achieving Resilience in an Age of Extreme Weather

Michael Herrera

Introducing the Continuity Crib Sheet: What to Do if You Have No BC Plan

Richard Long

Operational Risks: How They Can Hurt You and How to Manage Them

Richard Long

Preparing a Document Repository

Michael Herrera

Do You Need Business Continuity Training Or Testing?

Michael Herrera

When is the Best Time to Establish a Training & Awareness Program?

Michael Herrera

Do the Right Thing: Start a BCM Program

Michael Herrera

Homeward Bound: 7 Questions to Answer Before Sending Staff Home to Work

Michael Herrera

Are You a Leader in BCM Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)?

Michael Herrera

Compliance Risk: The New Definition

Michael Herrera

Getting the Most Out of Your BCM Consultant: Do’s and Don’ts

Michael Herrera

What is the Value of Operational Risk Management?

Michael Herrera

IT Risk Mitigation

Michael Herrera

Operational Risk Consultant: A Cool Job of the Future

Michael Herrera

Aligning Business Recovery Efforts with IT Disaster Recovery

Michael Herrera

Vendor Risk Management – Where to Start

Richard Long

Planning a Workplace Violence Mock Disaster Scenario

Michael Herrera

How Long Should Your BIA Interview Take to Complete?

Michael Herrera

Practicing the Crisis Communication Plan

Michael Herrera

A Little Help: How to Select a BCM Consultant

Michael Herrera

Defining Tasks and Assigning Resources for Business Continuity

Michael Herrera

Recovery Options

Michael Herrera

What’s More Likely – A Catastrophic or Partial Data Center Disruption?

Michael Herrera

People, Process, and Technology

Michael Herrera

Training is Not Optional

Michael Herrera

Disaster Recovery vs. Business Recovery – Business Continuity 101

Richard Long

Money Matters: The Importance of Being Financially Prepared for a Business Disruption

Richard Long

Disaster Recovery in 2018: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Richard Long

Kill the Zombies, or How to Get More From Your DR Exercises

Richard Long

Shark Attacks vs. Sunburn: Preparing for the Most Likely Problems

Richard Long

8 Dos and 1 Don’t for Conducting Disaster Recovery Tests

Richard Long

Standard Issue: Is Your BCM Standard Making Things Worse?

Richard Long

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Managing Risk but Were Afraid to Ask

Richard Long

Become a Master of Disaster: Educate Yourself With These Key BC Resources

Michael Herrera

The Face in the Mirror: The Importance of Truly Knowing Your Own BC Program

Richard Long

How Working from Home During an Emergency Is Different

Richard Long

Have Yourself a Careful Little Christmas: Holiday Safety Tips from MHA

Richard Long

Crisis Response in Today’s Breakneck World

Richard Long

10 Steps You Can Take to Prepare for the Threat of Workplace Violence

Richard Long

Not If But When: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Global Pandemic?

Richard Long

Helping Hands: What BC Consultants Do For You

Richard Long

Hanging Tough: The Mental Game in Business Continuity

Richard Long

Go Pro: Every BCM Practitioner Should Know About DRI’s “Professional Practices”

Richard Long

Rationale vs. Reality: The Bad Reasons Businesses Give for Skimping on BCM

Richard Long

5 Myths of Contemporary Crisis Management

Richard Long

For Want of a Nail: The Importance of Meticulous Execution in BC and IT/DR

Richard Long

After the Smoke Clears: 7 Things to Do Once an Emergency Is Over

Richard Long

How to Be a Mock Jock: Advice on Facilitating a Disaster Exercise

Richard Long

The Plan that Time Forgot: The Importance of Protecting Your Business Processes

Richard Long

Attack of the Black Swans: When Strange Things Happen

Richard Long

What Comes Naturally: Dealing with Disasters Made by Mother Nature

Richard Long

Disaster Recovery 101: Don’t Make This Common Mistake

Richard Long

You Better Shop Around: How to Obtain Relevant Crisis Management Training

Richard Long

Ready or Not, Here It Comes: 5 Steps to Protecting Your Company Against Coronavirus

Richard Long

So You Want to Be a Risk Mitigator: 5 Tips to Help You Master the Craft

Richard Long

Conduct an IT Wellness Check: Make Sure Your Tech Systems Are Healthy

Richard Long

Emerging from the Lockdown: 6 Things to Think About for the Next Phase

Richard Long

Home to Stay? Adapting to the Next Permanent Workplace

Richard Long

Back in the Saddle: Resuming Regular BCM Activities

Richard Long

Demonstrating Readiness: Business Continuity in Times of Social Unrest

Richard Long

The Great Inspection: Identifying Likely Future Common BCM Problems

Richard Long

You Still Need to Drill: IT/DR Testing Is as Important as Ever

Richard Long

Halloween Edition: True Stories of BCM Horror

Richard Long

Boutique BCM Firms: Good Things Come in Small Packages

Richard Long

How Pandemic Fatigue Poses a New Risk for Business

Richard Long

Silver Lining: Could a Negative Year Bring Positive Changes to BCM?

Richard Long

8 Oversights That Can Bring Your Operations to a Standstill

Richard Long

Meeting the Standard: The 3 Scenarios Encountered in Complying With BCM Standards

Richard Long

“Pay Up or Else”: How to Be Ready for a Ransomware Attack

Richard Long

Know Your Gaps: Manage Residual Risk to Keep Your Company Safe

Richard Long

Get Out the Map: Why Your BCM Program Needs a Roadmap

Michael Herrera

Table Service: 8 Ways Tabletop Exercises Can Benefit Your Company

Richard Long

The Best Policy: The Core Element of a Good BCM Program Is Honesty

Richard Long

Hit or Myth: 5 Common Misconceptions About IT/disaster recovery

Richard Long

The BCM Pro’s Role in Managing Social Media During a Crisis

Richard Long

Helping Your Organization Retain Its Pandemic Survival Skills

Richard Long

How to Help Your Organization Get Through a Ransomware Attack

Richard Long

What Service Providers Need to Know About Supply Chain Risk Management

Richard Long

How to Get Business Units to Take Ownership of Their BCM Programs

Richard Long

A Home Away From Home: Crafting a Site Recovery Plan

Richard Long

After the BIA: Save Time and Money by Fine-Tuning Your Application RTOs

Richard Long

Eat the Frog: Tackling the Tough BCM Challenges You Habitually Put Off

Richard Long

How to Set Up a Crisis Response Team (and Why You Need One)

Richard Long

Practice Makes Perfect: How to Be Ready to Handle an Emergency

Richard Long

Omission Accomplished: When Front-Line Workers Are Excluded from BCM Training

Richard Long

Goodbye to All That: How to Phase Out Your Data Center

Richard Long

Learning the Local Culture: BCM Pros Need to Suit Their Programs to the Locality

Richard Long

Risk Assessment: The Best Way to Identify Your Biggest Threats

Richard Long

BCM Basics: The BC Professional’s Role in Data Protection

Richard Long

Resiliency Consulting: Helping Companies Get In Peak Condition

Richard Long

BCM Basics: Modern IT/DR Strategies

Richard Long

How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

Michael Herrera

Weird Weather: How to Be Resilient In a Time of Climate Chaos

Michael Herrera

Reviewing the Five Types of Risk

Richard Long

Recovering Right: How to Improve at IT Disaster Recovery

Richard Long

Three to Get Ready: The 3 Key Areas of Business Continuity

Richard Long

Signs of an Unreliable IT Architecture

Richard Long

What is Business Continuity? – Business Continuity 101

Richard Long

The Three Phases of Disaster Recovery

Richard Long

BC Practitioner’s Guide to IT Security Concerns

Richard Long

All About RTOs: What They Are and Why You Have To Get Them Right

Richard Long

The 6 Tasks Every Emergency Plan Should Address

Richard Long

Using the Incident Command System (ICS): Commanding Performance

Richard Long

Risk Limitation – Real World Examples

Richard Long

Common Business Continuity Disasters

Richard Long

Business Continuity or Disaster Recovery Testing and Training Guidelines

Richard Long

Creating a Continuity Culture: How Your Organization Can Make Business Continuity a Habit

Richard Long

Defining Risk Avoidance for a Modern Business Structure

Richard Long

8 Tips for Building a Good Crisis Management Team

Richard Long

A Sample Threat and Risk Assessment: The Case of Acme Widget Corp.

Richard Long

How to Plan a Mock Disaster Exercise

Richard Long

Who Does What: The Most Critical Job Roles in IT Disaster Recovery

Richard Long

Risk Acceptance – Conscious Decision or Ignorance?

Michael Herrera

In Time of Crisis: What to Do in the First 24 Hours

Richard Long

Dropping the Ball: 6 Common Crisis Response Mistakes

Richard Long

The Cost of Calamity: How Being Unprepared Can Harm An Organization

Richard Long

Beyond Hurricanes: 4 Examples of Recent, Real-Life Business Emergencies

Richard Long

BCM Basics: Inherent Risk vs. Residual Risk

Richard Long

What About When Communication Methods are Limited?

Richard Long

The Benefits of a Business Continuity Program

Richard Long

Be Ransomware Resilient: Know How to Operate Manually

Richard Long

Building an Effective Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Team

Michael Herrera

Tried and True: These Classic DR Concepts Are As Valid As Ever

Richard Long

Data Preservation: What to Include in Your Data Protection Policy

Richard Long

Vulnerable Vendors: Supplier Weaknesses Put Your Organization at Risk

Richard Long

Safety Zone: 13 Fire & Life Safety Tips for BCM Practitioners

Richard Long

How to Stop Third-Party Vendors from Becoming Your Achilles’ Heel

Richard Long

Little Things Mean a Lot: The Value of Micro Mock Disaster Exercises

Richard Long

Taking Care of Business: How to Write a Business Recovery Plan

Richard Long

The Science and Art of Writing an IT/DR Recovery Plan

Richard Long

Cyber Self-Defense: Prepare for the No. 1 Threat By Taking These Five Steps

Richard Long

The Benefits of Stressing Out: Why You Should Stress Test Your Recovery Plans

Richard Long

Business Continuity Consulting: Now Available in Select-a-Size

Richard Long

Data Loss Is Inevitable: These Tips Will Help You Recover

Richard Long

8 Tips for Facility Security During the Holidays and All Year Long

Richard Long

BC’s Big Four: The Most Disruptive Problems in Business Continuity

Richard Long

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Using Business Continuity Templates

Richard Long

Homefront: The New Hot Zone for BCM Is Employees’ Home Offices

Richard Long

Critical Assistance: How a Consultant Can Strengthen Your Crisis Management Program

Richard Long

A Home Away From Home: Crafting a Site Recovery Plan

Richard Long

Ignoring Cyber Security Warnings: Disrupting the Norm

Richard Long

Making the Most of the Hybrid Emergency Operations Center

Richard Long

Continuing to Thrive: A Definition of Business Continuity

Richard Long

Sweating the Big Stuff: 5 Things that Really Matter in BCM

Richard Long

Today’s Threat Environment: How Vulnerable is Your Business?

Richard Long

Stack Attack: A Brief Guide to the IT Stack for BC Professionals

Richard Long

Your Very First Task: Scout the Business Continuity Territory

Richard Long

Your Crisis Communication Plan: Resources for Professionals.

Richard Long

Communicating During an Emergency Event

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Exercise Smarter: Include 3rd Party Experts In Your Cyber Exercises

Richard Long

The New World of BYOD: How You Can Help Your Organization Stay Safe

Richard Long

What BC Professionals Can Do to Help Guard Against Cyberattacks

Richard Long

How to Create a Budget for Your Business Continuity Program

Michael Herrera

FFIEC: An Introduction to BCM’s Gold Standard

Michael Herrera

The Right Way to Write an RFP for Business Continuity Services

Michael Herrera

Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja

Richard Long

Client’s Guide to Hiring a BC Consultant

Richard Long

Managing Insider Threats: How to Protect Your Organization

Richard Long

A Realist’s Guide to How AI Can Help with Business Continuity

Michael Herrera

Manual Workarounds & the BCP

Michael Herrera

Business Impact Analysis Sample Questions

Michael Herrera

RTO and RPO: Making It Simple

Richard Long

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Comes of Age

Richard Long

A Robust Business Continuity Plan in 20 Steps

Richard Long

Forming the Business Continuity Management Team

Michael Herrera

Using the A.P.I.E. Methodology to Focus your Crisis Management Team Decision Making and Action Planning

Michael Herrera

Let’s Get Functional: Learning from the CrowdStrike Outage

Richard Long

Herrera Unplugged: How to Hamstring Your BC Consultant

Michael Herrera

Managing Enterprise Risk: Understanding the 8 Risk Domains

Richard Long

The Rise of “Quick and Dirty” DR Testing

Michael Herrera

The Human Factor: BCM Team Roles and Skill Requirements

Michael Herrera

BCM Basics: “Continuity” Defined

Richard Long

Crisis Management Training: Elevate Your Team’s Response Skills

Richard Long

The Times They Are a-Changin’: Adapting to Change as a BCM Professional

Michael Herrera

Gone With the Wind: 12 BCM Practices That Have Become Outdated

Richard Long

A BC Consultant’s View of the Risks of Generative AI

Richard Long

BCM Basics: The Strategic Side of Crisis Management

Richard Long

The Retro Revolution: Why Manual Workarounds Are a BC Must

Michael Herrera

The ABCs of ERM: The Rise of Enterprise Risk Management

Michael Herrera

Risk Control Matrix: Why You Should Employ a Risk Management Matrix

Richard Long

About Time: Deciding When to Start Your RTO Countdown

Richard Long

Staying Current: Why You Need to Keep Your BCM Plans Up to Date

Richard Long

Checking It Twice: The Corporate Risk Mitigation Checklist

Richard Long

Eight Is Enough: The 8 Skills That Will Enable You to Thrive as a BCM Professional

Michael Herrera

Every Single Day: Make Risk Management Part of Your Company’s Culture

Richard Long

BCM Basics: The 5 Types of Risk and How to Mitigate Them

Richard Long

Mark My Words: Commonly Confused Business Continuity Terms

Richard Long

The Risk Management Process: Manage Uncertainty, Then Repeat

Richard Long

What to Include in Your Crisis Management Plan

Richard Long

Crisis Management Exercise Examples – A Review of Real Exercises

Richard Long

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