How much downtime would your business rack up if your office building lost power for a day? Businesses without a disaster plan are doomed to fail, with 93 percent of them who suffer a data disaster ...

Business continuity planning and emergency management focus on ensuring that an organization is prepared for adverse events. Even so, these critical practices each serve a different purpose. Business ...

Business continuity is an organization's ability to maintain critical business functions during and after a disaster has occurred. Business continuity planning establishes risk management processes ...

Business continuity used to live in a binder, often reviewed once a year and quickly forgotten. Today, it has become a critical part of day-to-day risk management and operational strategy. From cyber ...

Business continuity programs are often considered on a standalone basis, but recent incidents that involve security breaches highlight how business continuity, disaster recovery, security and risk ...

Until a year ago, operations managers charged with business continuity predominantly focused on natural disasters, human error, cyberattacks and insider threats. In 2017, for instance, the top reasons ...

Serious risks threaten the survival of your company, but effective risk management reduces your exposure and facilitates planning for business continuity. When you identify risks and take mitigating ...

In previous posts, we stepped through the process of understanding the business, the threats it faces related to business continuity, and how prepared it is to prevent, detect, or respond to events.

The purpose of Business Continuity Event Management (BCEM) is reduction of harm to employees, customers, investors, and the business when an unexpected business interruption—a business continuity ...

Benjamin Franklin once said, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” This is particularly true in business, where events that threaten a company’s operations and shareholder value can ...

The Master of Science in Enterprise Risk Management (MSERM) program at Boston University’s Metropolitan College integrates cutting-edge intellectual content from the academic world with sophisticated ...

Business continuity can be defined as ‘the processes, procedures, decisions and activities to ensure that an organization can continue to function through an operational interruption’. In other words ...