The REAL causes of business continuity plan failure
Business continuity plans don't fail because of the size of the documents or their content - business continuity plans, incident response...
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Steve Dance
Sep 243 min read
Business Continuity Plan templates to accelerate development of BC awareness programmes
Using a template to guide the development of a Business Continuity Management (BCM) awareness program offers many advantages that...
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Steve Dance
Sep 163 min read
Business continuity plan template for a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS)
Using a template to guide the development of a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) offers several key advantages that enhance...
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Steve Dance
Sep 91 min read
Business Continuity Planning: looking back on August 2024
A brief synopsis of some of the things I found a worthwhile read last month Three organizational best practices highlighted by the...
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Steve Dance
Sep 93 min read
Business Continuity Plan Template for Incident Communications Strategies
Using a template to develop crisis communication strategies offers several advantages that enhance the efficiency, consistency, and...
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Steve Dance
Sep 22 min read
Business Continuity Plans - the essentials
A Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a is focussed on ensuring an organisation can continue its operations during and after a disruptive...
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Steve Dance
Aug 272 min read
Accelerating development of Business Impact Assessments (BIA) - use a business continuity plan template
Using a template to develop a Business Impact Assessment (BIA) offers several advantages that can streamline the process, ensure...
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Steve Dance
Aug 193 min read
Templates for Business Continuity Planning - avoiding the tripwires
Tripwires that can undermine a business continuity plan
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Steve Dance
Aug 192 min read
Is there anything positive we can takeaway from the CrowdStrike Incident
Considering all of the negative impacts, costs and disruption of the recent CrowdStrike incident is there anything positive that we can...
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Steve Dance
Nov 3, 20232 min read
Business Continuity Oversight, Assurance & Governance: do you know your capabilities?
A business continuity capability statement can be a useful resource for a number of reasons: It provides a central point of reference for...
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Steve Dance
Nov 3, 20232 min read
Risk Assessment: A Weapon of self-deception?
The problem with any risk assessment approach whether qualitative or quantitive, lies in estimating the scope (how widespread the outcome...
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Steve Dance
Jan 11, 20233 min read
Apples, Pears & Understanding Exposure
Understanding Exposure: Value at risk vs observation & judgement There’s a school of thought that the concept of value at risk or “VaR”...
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Steve Dance
Sep 7, 20223 min read
Cyber attack risk - just follow the money
"Follow the money" is a familiar phrase most often associated with identifying the culprits of fraud and financial crime. But it's also...
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Steve Dance
Aug 30, 20225 min read
Exposed to shocks?
Does putting a numerical "score" on a risk register entry (or a grade like Red, Amber, Green or High, Medium, Low) really mean anything?...
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Steve Dance
Aug 4, 20222 min read
Risk registers: they don't cover everything
For many organisations, developing a risk register is seen as a destination - and it should not be. Often, the corporate risk register...
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Steve Dance
Aug 3, 20223 min read
Cyber attack recovery: it's never over until it's over
Recovering from a cyber attack can be one of the greatest challenges an organisation can face. Successful attacks can result in ransom...
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Steve Dance
Oct 19, 20211 min read
6 things every senior exec should know about their organisation's business continuity
Senior execs don't need to know the details of how to go about building business continuity capabilities for their organisation - that's...
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Steve Dance
Oct 5, 20212 min read
Facebook & WhatsApp's Disappearing Act (in plain English)
Billions of users all over the world experienced a major loss of service from both Facebook and WhatsApp on Monday, 4th October. There...
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Steve Dance
Sep 14, 20214 min read
Remote working - business as usual?
Many UK businesses have adopted remote working as the only operating alternative during the lockdown. The experience of having the vast...
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Steve Dance
Sep 8, 20217 min read
Resilience: Business Continuity in disguise?
For many - (including me), much of what is described as resilience still looks suspiciously like “warmed up” business continuity. ...
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