Privacy Breach: Emotions Running Wild!

It was a text book crisis. It happened on a typical Wednesday morning in a rural office in Ontario.  Making it even more “typical”, members of the Crisis Management Team were out of town on business. The company was experiencing a sophisticated phishing attack and a...

Ransomware as a Crisis

As I was about to write this article, I saw a post in LinkedIn from Rob Burton quoting the Top 3 concerns of business continuity professionals according to the BCI Horizon Scan 2017.  Not surprisingly, number one on the list is cyber security.  (Followed by data...

Using BIA Data to Build Strategies

“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”  ~ Sun TzuPart 4 in a series.To this point, we have collected and reported our Business Impact Analysis (BIA) data. Sadly, for many organizations this is where the process stops.  But actually, this is where it...