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Your First 100 Days – Seven Steps to Maximizing Your BC Program

Business continuity professionals change jobs for a variety of reasons, often a new opportunity, significant challenge, or to find a different company culture. Regardless of the circumstance, a comprehensive, detailed roadmap will help you do things RIGHT!!… a second, third or even a fourth time! This Continuity Insights New York ... 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

Creating an Effective Resiliency Program

Where does crisis management end and business continuity begin? Where does BCP report? What are the critical components of an effective resiliency program? Join David Strumpf, Senior Principal of the Promontory Financial Group, as he presents “How to Create an Effective Resiliency Program” at the Continuity Insights 2017 New York ... Read more

Preparing Your Company for Operations – Before, During, and After a Cyber Attack

Conventional cyber-security doesn’t address the broad range of business issues affected by cyber-attack. A comprehensive strategy must incorporate both basic and emerging cyber defenses that address technology, policy, and behavior. It also needs coordinated, detailed plans to continue operations after an attack, defeat the attack, and restore the organization to ... Read more

Integrating Enterprise Risk Management and BC Management

Business continuity management is an important part of enterprise risk management. They complement one another, and both are necessary in today’s high-risk business environment. ERM and BCM share the common goals of identifying, assessing, and managing interruption risks that could serve to prevent achievement of their strategic objectives. While ERM ... Read more

New Business Continuity Trending Report Released

BC Management has released the third edition of its Business Continuity Trending Report which assesses the direction of the business continuity management profession. The report summarizes data collected from more 4,000 respondents to BC Management’s International Business Continuity Management survey from 2009 through 2017. Among the key business continuity management ... Read more

FEMA Region II Shelter-in-Place Workshop Scheduled for CI New York Conference

Shelter-in-place workshops are intended to provide participants with the ability to exchange best practices and evaluate potential solutions to challenges associated with major disasters requiring shelter-in-place. The FEMA Region II Shelter-in-Place Workshop is a facilitated discussion that focuses on identifying challenges you may encounter with sheltering people in place for ... Read more

The Evolution of Data Protection: Differences between Backup and Disaster Recovery

By Zeb Ahmed, CLOUD, XaaS & BCDR Leader – IBM: Having worked with many clients over the last 10-15 years in the data protection space, one of most common questions that I have been asked is “How is Backup different from Disaster Recovery?” There is usually quite a bit of ... Read more

The Top 5 Ways to Modernize Your Business Continuity Program Now

As the pace of change in business and technology accelerates, business continuity management (BCM) continues to evolve rapidly within enterprises to meet increased market and regulatory demands. New strategies need to be assessed by the enterprise from many perspectives, including impact on existing processes, associated risk, and how emerging approaches to ... Read more

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