Business Continuity and Crisis Management Consultants
Most organizations compare the cost of a business continuity program by putting one salary next to one consulting quote. That comparison is wrong in both directions. It undercounts what an in-house program costs, and it overcounts what you need to buy from outside. The real question is not “employee or consultant.” It is who does …
Business Continuity Program Cost: In-House vs Outsourced, With the Real MathRead More
Most organizations choose a tabletop exercise facilitator on the scenario pitch and the price. They should choose on two things the sales call rarely covers: whether the room will actually make decisions, and what you will hold in your hands two weeks later. A tabletop exercise is a decision-forcing device. If your people spend three …
How to Choose a Tabletop Exercise Facilitator: Seven Questions to Ask Before You SignRead More
Health care is putting AI agents into production faster than it can govern them. Most of the conversation about AI agent incident response stops at the front door: who gets access, with what credentials, for how long. That work matters. It is also the easy half. The harder question is what your organization does after …
Anthropic published its September 2026 threat intelligence report last month. It documents eight months of AI misuse the company detected and shut down on its own platform. Most of the coverage, including CyberScoop’s, focused on the headline: lone operators now run campaigns that used to require a state intelligence service. That is true. It is …
The Response Window Just Collapsed. Your Crisis Plan Still Assumes Days.Read More
Frontier AI models can now find exploitable vulnerabilities faster than any human research team, and attackers have that capability today. In Episode 335 of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath introduces the AI Storm, a scenario of concurrent zero-days with exploitation beginning within hours of disclosure. He explains why the threat environment your …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #335: The AI Storm is ComingRead More
Last week, OpenAI and Anthropic signed the same letter. So did Microsoft, Google, AWS, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Mastercard, Visa, AT&T, and more than a hundred other organizations. The letter, A Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense, says AI-enabled cyber attacks “will become far more widespread and sophisticated” in the coming months, and that …
The AI Labs Just Warned You About AI-Enabled Cyber Attacks. Here Is What They Left Out.Read More
Here is the uncomfortable finding most CEOs will skip past this week. New research from Wharton, published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, analyzed six years of data to understand why some leaders defend remote and hybrid work while others kill it. The researchers surveyed thousands of executives, managers, and supervisors across a long …
A Return-to-Office Mandate Is a Tell About Your Leadership, Not Your StrategyRead More
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal and Chief Executive Bryan Strawser shares a personal story. Over the past year, alongside leading Bryghtpath, he completed paramedic school and seven months of clinical shifts on a 911 ambulance in the Twin Cities metro. What he learned riding to 180 patients changed how he …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #334: Sevens Months on an AmbulanceRead More
