Running a small business can be full of surprises — some positive, like winning a new customer unexpectedly, and others challenging, like storms, tech problems, illness, or loss of a key employee.

Most companies that I speak with already have business continuity plans in place. That’s certainly true in the financial services industry, where even short and mild network disruptions can cost ...

This chapter will focus on leveraging a collaborative planning approach so that the team emerges from the process understanding the plan without needing to use it. It will describe the steps to ...

What will you do if the building you operate in is damaged to the point where it is unsafe to work? Or if utilities won’t be available for weeks or longer following a disaster? Disasters happen. They ...

Business continuity awareness week runs from May 13, 2019. This presents a timely reminder about the disasters companies tend to underestimate and under prepare for, like a pandemic (notably measles ...

This article explores the purpose and scope of DRPs, BCPs, and IRPs, their differences, and how they complement each other. It also provides actionable insight into the role in-house counsel can play ...

The single biggest threat to an independent financial advisory practice with one owner or one primary advisor is not the lack of a succession plan; rather, it is the lack of a plan to ensure the ...

Many businesses have some plan for when cloud access goes out, but there is a difference between a simple backup plan and ...

As the number of ransomware incidents against healthcare organizations increases, providers need to employ key strategies to protect patient data, says Tapan Mehta, health executive at Palo Alto ...

The interruption of service for the Canvas LMS after a ransomware attack left many in higher education reckoning with how to ...