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The widespread business disruption events of 2024 had one thing in common. Most of the damage arrived through something the affected organizations depended on but did not control: a claims clearinghouse, a pathology lab, a security vendor’s update, a dealer software platform, a single IV fluid plant, a shipping lane. Very few of the organizations …
Business Continuity Insights from the Biggest Disruptions of 2024Read More
Navigating a datacenter relocation? This comprehensive guide covers planning, execution, and key considerations for a seamless transition, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal data security.
Disaster preparedness for critical infrastructure is mostly a dependency problem. A substation, a water plant, or a hospital rarely fails on its own. It fails because something it depends on failed first: the power, the fuel truck, the network, the one vendor nobody listed. Plan for those dependencies and you are prepared. Plan only for …
Disaster Preparedness for Critical Infrastructure: A Guide to Building ResilienceRead More
Integrating cybersecurity into business continuity planning starts with one shift: a cyber event is a whole-business crisis, not an IT incident. Most business continuity plans still treat a cyberattack as a technology scenario owned by the security team. When it hits, the CEO calls the CIO, and the CIO goes to work on the servers. …
Integrating Cybersecurity into Business Continuity Planning: A Practitioner’s GuideRead More
Learn about the importance of disaster recovery teams in safeguarding businesses. This guide delves into building, structuring, and managing a successful disaster recovery team for enhanced business resilience in today’s unpredictable world.
Disaster Recovery Teams: Who’s on Them, What They Do, and How They ConnectRead More
Hurricanes are getting stronger, wetter, and harder to predict from the storm count alone. Regardless of location or industry, organizations must recognize the threat and take proactive measures to prepare and plan for hurricanes. This article explains why hurricane planning has to start early, and the steps that make an organization resilient when a storm …
Hurricane Planning for Business: Essential Steps for ResilienceRead More
Understand how implementing effective mitigating controls can enhance security measures, protect your organization, and equip you to proactively handle potential threats to your business. Learn how to strengthen resilience, and stay one step ahead of emerging risks.
Mitigating Controls: Essential Strategies to Fortify Business ResilienceRead More
Business continuity and crisis management experts rarely talk about the gap between business continuity and IT disaster recovery planning. But they should. The distance between the IT disaster recovery program you have and what you need could be bigger than you think. Like one of our clients whose IT disaster recovery plans for several critical …
Closing the Gap Between Business Continuity & IT Disaster RecoveryRead More
A food processing chain. A fuel pipeline system. A police department. A transportation authority. These are some of the larger targets hit with ransomware attacks in the U.S. in 2021. But for every ransomware story in the news, dozens of incidents go unmentioned, either because the company is too small for news outlets to care …
Is it just me, or is “resilience” the new buzzword? The concept seems straightforward in a personal context; building up the psychological fortitude to bounce back from all of life’s bumps and bruises. But what exactly does it mean for a business to be “resilient”? We hear a lot of business leaders and highly trained …
In this episode of the Managing Uncertainty Podcast, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser discusses Brian Kreb’s recent article “Don’t wanna pay ransom gangs? Test your backups”. Topics discussed include dealing with ransomware as a disaster recovery and business continuity problem. Do you have the proper backups in place? Do you really know what …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #115: Ransomware and BackupsRead More
In this episode, Bryghtpath Principal & Chief Executive Bryan Strawser walks through the Bryghtpath Business Continuity Framework – it’s our view of the lifecycle & workflows that should be established in any Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery framework. Topics discussed in this episode include the business impact analysis, business continuity & disaster recovery planning lifecycles, …
Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #102: The Bryghtpath Business Continuity FrameworkRead More
