October 05, 2022
Building Your Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)
What is a Business Continuity Management System? The next important step in building a mature Business Continuity Program is establishing a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS). If up to this point creating our Business Continuity Program has been like building a house, then establishing your BCMS is like your book of building codes. It is a set […]
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June 14, 2022
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Solution for Regional Insurance Company
Overview A Regional P&C Insurance Company based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is the niche property and casualty insurer that brings stability to multifamily housing. The carrier currently insures commercial establishments including apartment buildings, office buildings, and shopping centers in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., through a network of independent agents. The […]
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June 07, 2022
Have you defined your Business Continuity Program?
What is a Business Continuity Program? It’s difficult to think of starting any endeavor in business and thinking it would have a chance of success if you didn’t define what you were trying to do. Developing a successful business continuity program is a prime example of this principle. Think about it. You wouldn’t start on […]
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April 27, 2022
How Business Continuity Touches Everything
A #Curio Session Hosted By: Sayers Engineers & Special Guests Watch our Sayers Engineers lead an interactive panel discussing all things business continuity.
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April 07, 2022
Business Continuity Program Management: Everything You Need
Maturity is a term that is often brought up in the world of business. Bonds mature, markets mature, neighborhoods mature, and (hopefully) technologies mature as time goes on. Every time the word gets used, however, the context is critically important. Clearly when we’re talking about the maturity level of a grand new technology, we’re not talking about the […]
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December 16, 2021
Immutable Storage Solutions for Ransomware Protection
Worried about ransomware? You have good reason to be. Worried about ransomware? You have good reason to be. According to the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report, the bureau received nearly 2,500 ransomware complaints in 2020, with a reported collective cost of the attacks at more than $29.1 million. Lost data means lost revenue. Organizations that had […]
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April 07, 2021
“It Can’t Happen,” Happens All the Time
There is a distinct line between being confident and being presumptive. The problem with presumption is it often presents itself as certainty but is a misguided sense of confidence that can blind us to reality. In the practice of Business Continuity, the ultimate foe is presumption. Earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods can all be prepared for in advance. Presumption prevents any form […]
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March 05, 2020
Why Business Continuity Goes Beyond IT – An Example In Coronavirus
October of last year I led a business continuity (BC) workshop for clients, prospects and partners. While explaining that a good BC program permeates throughout an entire organization an attendee asked how he could best deliver that message to upper management. He worked for the IT department of a healthcare provider. His concern was that […]
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October 25, 2019
Teachable Moments in IT
An article caught my eye this week. It involves the unfortunate circumstances in the city of Baltimore, but it’s a valuable lesson to any organization (link below). In short, a combination of ransomware and poorly managed backups wreaked havoc on the City of Baltimore. The unfortunate situation is a good reminder of how the best […]
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September 03, 2019
Business Continuity And Top Management Are Inseparable
Business Continuity and Top Management are Inseparable ContinuityCentral.com posted an analysis by editor David Honour of a crisis communication statement made by National Grid CEO John Pettigrew following a wide-area power outage that occurred on August 9th, which was the largest to occur in the UK for over a decade. The analysis scrutinizes every part of Pettigrew’s statement, […]
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