Is having a business continuity plan enough? No. You need to exercise it. Set your mind at ease with both having a business continuity...

I am not shy about the fact I am not a fan of AI (yes, I personally write everything I produce). AI can do what you tell it to do, what...

Have you seen the recently released Netflix documentary series on the cyberattack that took down Ashley Madison? Aside from the juicy...

When it comes to business continuity plans, the plans need to be updated when there is a significant change. Small business owners don’t...

Covid-19 was 4 years ago…a lot of us adapted and moved on. Short-term memory is a real thing with disasters. While I am not arguing for...

I am a diehard fan of community resilience. I have given many talks specific to that or have included it tangentially because it is just...

911 services went down at two different points so far in 2024. The first (written about in this blog) involved an AT&T outage caused by...

Success requires work. Not just work, the work. There is putting in work and doing all the things you need to to get off the ground –...

Part of business continuity is taking care of your employees. I'm going to meld my BC background with my emergency management background...

Pull out those milk cartons. FINRA is not joking around. FINRA (in Rule 4370(e), specifically) sets out that each member “must disclose...

The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse highlights something important: how unimportant we regard investing in infrastructure on the whole....

For those who don't know what business continuity is, they assume it is succession planning. Yes, and...it is one of the planks of a...

Compliance can be a real pain in the ass. Dotting i's and crossing t's is time consuming. Worrying about whether or not you're doing...

Supply chain management is receiving a lot of push now. It’s never not been a thing in the realm of business continuity, but more people...

There are so many lessons to be learned from the fatal avalanche that happened in the Lake Tahoe area in January. This is not going to be...

Do you know why I love to start all exercises with “You’ve lost all your phone and internet access”? Because it is likely to happen and...

You know how young kids stubbornly insist on doing something themselves even though it will take longer, not be done as well, or just...

Valentine’s Day week has a theme: love. And business continuity. I often speak about how and why business continuity is important to a...

This is the headline: Taylor Swift’s Chiefs-themed ring brings thousands of orders to Kansas City small business. In manufacturing there...

There is a reason you cannot rely exclusively on third party providers (3PP) for your business being operational continuously. 3PPs are...