Instead of focusing primarily on riding the wave of economic uncertainty to a more stable time, a solution lies in accepting uncertainty and building the best possible business continuity plan to help ...

You might not like to think about it, but have you considered what would happen to your business if disaster struck? Say you suffer a fire at your premises, or a catastrophic cyber attack leaves your ...

Family-owned businesses must understand the importance of having a proper continuity plan, even if their business is being passed down from one family member to another. Families often think they can ...

A business continuity plan is a set of procedures for maintaining business functions or quickly getting them back up and running in the event of some sort of major disruption — a natural disaster, ...

As discussed in Part 1, the first step in Business Continuity Planning is to form the BCP Team, create the Mission, and draft the Policy. The next step is to conduct a vulnerability risk assessment.

In an article aimed at providing assistance to those starting out in business continuity, CMAC overviews the basics of business continuity and offers a useful framework for writing your first business ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. A business emergency is one of those things you never want to think about — until you have to. Weather emergencies. Natural disasters.

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations, including those in financial services, are thinking hard about business continuity planning. The pandemic is raising awareness and prompting a ...

Having a business continuity program in place is key to maintaining minimum operations and reduce recovery time during a business disruption. Business Continuity Management (BCM) is about preparing ...

Building an incident response team (IRT) is a good first step along the path toward effective business continuity event (BCE) management. But the team needs a plan to follow when an event occurs. A ...

Today, organizations are more reliant than ever on external vendors, suppliers, and service providers. This interdependency amplifies both operational capabilities and vulnerabilities. Disruptions at ...

Only the most resilient companies have been able to ride the wave, while some are just holding on with government assistance. And unfortunately, there are others that have not and may not make it. And ...