By Agility Recovery: Wildfire Season Risk, Outlook and Facts: A Wildfire season typically aligns with times when there’s an excess of dry fuels, winds and temperatures are above average, and humidity is low, which creates hot, dry conditions. Wildfire season also varies from one region to another. While there are wildfire hot zones, every
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Business Continuity: Planning for the Next Pandemic
ICOR Webinar: Strategies to Increase Supply Chain Resilience
ICOR has announced that Strategies to Increase Supply Chain Resilience, a new educational webinar, has been scheduled for Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. ET. This webinar will review how you can ensure strategies exist to manage supply chain risk, continuity, and security. All supply chains face risks. The more
Weekly COVID-19 Pandemic Report
Continuity Insights and the Disaster Recovery Journal are collaborating on these resources to ensure that business continuity/disaster recovery professionals are well-informed as they combat the COVID-19 crisis. We will be updating this resource center with new information and links weekly. July 6, 2020 Homefront: The New Hot Zone for BCM Is Employees’
Turning Crisis Into Opportunity: Creating Your Business Continuity Social Media Plan
Now, more than ever, organizations must have some kind of social media presence to stay relevant and informed. Creating Your Business Continuity Social Media Plan – Turn Your Crisis Into an Opportunity!, a new Continuity Insights webinar, will outline the key components required to develop and implement an effective social
Building More Resilient Communities
By Lynnda Nelson, ICOR: What Makes a Community More or Less Resilient? The Power of Local It is widely accepted that resilience is not a process, it is not a management system standard, nor is it a consulting product. Resilience is a demonstrable outcome of a community’s capability to cope with uncertainty
Ransomware Preparation Checklist for Risk and Recovery
It’s business as usual for cyber criminals. While most of our working lives have experienced significant disruption, these cyber actors are busy planning their next ransomware attacks, incidents costing business and government millions each year. While some will pay a ransom, which doesn’t guarantee recovery, others will attempt to recover their
BCI Partner Crises Control Publishes Pandemic Recovery White Paper
The Covid-19 pandemic raises a number of very significant issues for business continuity and even business survival. These issues include employee availability, supply chain disruption and social distancing. As companies return to full operations, they will have to adapt to a new normal with significantly changed business operating models. Traditional business
ISO 22301 and Its Suite of Standards to Evaluate Business Continuity Program Performance
Despite the utmost importance of having a working Business Continuity Management program in place, there is yet no consensus among BCM practitioners on which metrics to use to evaluate program performance and how to implement them successfully and cost effectively. During ISO 22301 and Its Suite of Standards to Evaluate Business
