Business continuity planning and emergency management focus on ensuring that an organization is prepared for adverse events. Even so, these critical practices each serve a different purpose. Business ...

How much downtime would your business rack up if your office building lost power for a day? Businesses without a disaster plan are doomed to fail, with 93 percent of them who suffer a data disaster ...

Developing a business continuity plan can be an overwhelming task, particularly for larger organizations. Business continuity plan software can help ease the process. Business continuity encompasses ...

Building an incident response team (IRT) is a good first step along the path toward effective business continuity event (BCE) management. But the team needs a plan to follow when an event occurs. A ...

In previous posts, we stepped through the process of understanding the business, the threats it faces related to business continuity, and how prepared it is to prevent, detect, or respond to events.

This chapter will focus on leveraging a collaborative planning approach so that the team emerges from the process understanding the plan without needing to use it. It will describe the steps to ...

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations, including those in financial services, are thinking hard about business continuity planning. The pandemic is raising awareness and prompting a ...

In an article aimed at providing assistance to those starting out in business continuity, CMAC overviews the basics of business continuity and offers a useful framework for writing your first business ...

Business continuity planning is a university-wide initiative to ensure that Case Western Reserve University will be prepared to resume operations with efficiency in the event of a crisis. Business ...

Companies can flourish in unexpected situations only if their leaders have a cautious vision of what they could do to protect their organizations. However, this vision needs to be followed by action ...

The interconnected nature of modern business means that your vendors’ operational resilience can, and frequently does, have an outsized impact on business operations. Case in point: 61% of companies ...

In January 2020, ACRP commissioned the publication of this guide because it is becoming critical to plan for the rapid resumption of normal operations and business alongside the response to any crisis ...