Short Takes... on Business Continuity
Steve Crimando: The Three Basic Types of Behavioral Reactions to Disasters
Steve Crimando, an internationally known consultant and educator specializing in the application of the behavioral sciences in homeland and private security, violence prevention and crisis management.
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Deciphering Overlapping Standards and Requirements, Using the BCP Genome Why focus on just one standard, when you could comply with any or all of them? Discover a better way to interpret the alphabet soup of ISO, FFIEC, COBIT, COSO, NFPA, NASD, DRI, BCI, Basel II and other standards to your ... Read more
Shadow IT – More Vital Than You Might Think . . . 5 Self-Help DR Steps to Take Now!
By Jon Murphy Love it or hate it, with the consumerization of IT and rapid adoption of all things cloud computing, most organizations are loudly demonstrating their need for new tools to do more – faster and more efficiently than ever before. That in part is making Shadow IT pervasive ... Read more
The Next Generation of Crisis Management + Business Continuity
How will Gen X and Millennials change the BC landscape? As the power base within companies continues to change include more of these professionals, crisis management and business continuity programs will need to adapt. Our industry must find ways to communicate and implement our programs in better ways. In her ... Read more
The Blind Spot in Workplace Violence Prevention Programs: Part Three
By Steve Crimando, Behavioral Science Applications Bringing It Home In this final installment in our three-part series addressing violence prevention for employees working from home, we will focus on strategies and techniques that employees can use to reduce the risk of violence and ensure a safe and healthy work environment. In ... Read more
The Blind Spot in Workplace Violence Prevention Programs: Part Two
By Steve Crimando, Behavioral Science Applications In Part Two of our series on The Blind Spot in Workplace Violence Prevention Programs we will continue the discussion of workplace violence prevention for home office workers (A.K.A. telecommuters, remote workers, or employees working from home). In Part One of this three-part series, ... Read more
The Blind Spot in Workplace Violence Prevention Programs: Part One
By Steve Crimando, Behavioral Science Applications Out of Sight Cannot Mean Out of Mind Professionals concerned with safety, security and workplace violence prevention are likely to be familiar with Type IV workplace violence. In its well-worn four-type model, OSHA describes Type IV violence as intimate partner or domestic violence that ... Read more
Kathy Lee Patterson: Involving Executive Management
Kathy Lee Patterson is the Business Continuity Manager for Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia.
Mark Carroll: The Role of the Cloud Provider
Mark Carroll is a Senior Vice President with Income Research + Management in Boston.
What to Do When… The Lights Go Out
As a business owner or disaster recovery planner, you probably have provisions in your disaster recovery plan for natural disasters or the loss of your data infrastructure because you expect those types of interruptions to cost you a lot of money. But what about when the power goes out? According ... Read more