We publish weekly updates from the business continuity world, covering recent news items or reflecting on our travels and experiences with clients.
Charlie addresses topics from a Business Continuity perspective and you might be surprised how much of today’s news relates to BC! Providing valuable insight, Charlie raises critical questions which will surely encourage you to reconsider your Business Continuity plans.
Charlie discusses how individuals and organisations can prepare for increased tensions with Russia and gives an insight into what other countries are doing to be better prepared for escalation. “Prepare for the big war and pray it never comes” – Oleksandr Kamyshin, Ukrainian politician. I was at the RWN (Resilience World Nexus Summit) conference in London this week.
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses the value of going back to basics with a series of business continuity plan walkthroughs, highlighting how a structured review of plan content helped participants truly understand their roles and responsibilities during an incident. This week, I have been doing a number of plan walkthroughs for a client. The need for this
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie gives an insight into the points that should be addressed within a business continuity plan and the importance of including cyber within the plan. When I am teaching cyber incident management, I always talk about four areas which need to be addressed when responding to a ransomware incident. They are: communications and regulation
In today’s bulletin, Charlie looks at the importance of business continuity plans in schools and discusses some of the events that schools should be planning for. Over the last few weeks, I have been working with an Academy Trust that has a number of primary and secondary schools, and I thought this week I would share what I
In this week’s bulletin, Charlie discusses his reasons why flowcharts aren’t useful in most business continuity plans, and looks into how we could improve our plans. Over the last couple of days, I have been rewriting a client’s business continuity plan. One of the features of their plan has been to have a number of flow charts. I
This week, Charlie discusses why using a simpler incident response model is better suited for clients. For a long time, I have been working on developing and refining a framework for responding to and managing incidents. The framework has to be simple, as those who are going to use it will likely have limited training, and it has
This week, Charlie discusses why scenario-specific plans are an important addition to business continuity plans. Over the last couple of months, I have been part of the team working on two different standards. Firstly, rewriting the Business Continuity Institutes’, ‘Good Practice Guidelines’ (GPG). Secondly, the ISO 22361, which will be titled ‘Crisis Management – Guidelines for a Strategic